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“I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.”

Quote by Sxip Shirey

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Sxip Shirey is a composer whose life and creative achievements are not widely known. more

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“Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.”

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Author:Sxip Shirey

“I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.”

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“I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.”

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“In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.”

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“This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.”

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Book:Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

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“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”

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“We forget that stretch marks, cellulite and some stomach fat is natural. We forget that we are born human and physically can't be perfect. We forget that God doesn't make us out of plastic and silicone. We forget to be flawed.”

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“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.”

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“For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”

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