Best Ska Quotes

#1. The next name on the list is Ed Valiantbrue, which doesn't have an O in it anyway."
"O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! If it doesn't have am O in it, it can't be an anagram of Violet Baudelaire.

Lemony Snicket

#2. I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

King Krule

#3. In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#4. Ska," I said, swerving toward delirious laughter. "Great.

Gillian Flynn

#5. Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

Dick Gregory

#6. Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#7. A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

John Templeton

#8. What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

Michele Norris

#9. You know, we might've fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting the ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but we made Coca-Cola, so goddamn it, people weren't all bad.

Joe Hill

#10. I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.

Selena Gomez

#11. My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.

King Krule

#12. Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

Colin Stetson

#13. When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

Jimmy Cliff

#14. Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

Ezra Koenig

#15. The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

Douglas Coupland