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“The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.”

Art Sound Serious Disco

Author:Giorgio Moroder

“Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.”

Art Sound Serious Paper Papers Misunderstanding Disco

Author:Giorgio Moroder

“I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!”

Ifs Hard Sound Issues Mines Serious Mom Late Wake Up My Mom Managers Clock Hard Times Working It Waking Gigs Buddy Alarms Alarm Clocks Serious Issues

Author:Jesse McCartney

“You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.”

Problem Sound Economy Economic Serious Healthy Verge Economic Problems

Author:Ron Paul

“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.”

Want Life Feels Wells Success Understanding Sound Serious Becoming Capable Success In Life Deep Down Understanding Myself

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.”

Matter Sound Cry Serious Baby Response Noise Smoke Distressing

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.”

Thinking Men Use Remember Speak Sound Church Memories Steps Serious Genius Approach Argument Criticism Horse Lays Distance Charm Bells Disputes Precision Talkers Chimes

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.”

Sound Serious Hollow

Author:Alexandra David-Neel

“The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).”

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.”

Ifs Men Wells Soul Sound Ability Serious Sober Degenerates

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.”

Writing Self Matter Sound Voice My Own Records Serious No Matter What Driving Nuts Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Thom Yorke