Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world... music is... to being... to life.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

The past is a present force.

Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

A good story never dies.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

We rappers are role models.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.