Top 16 Ethnomusicologist Quotes
#1. I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn
#2. I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.
Pierre Boulez
#3. I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.
Mark Leibovich
#4. When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.
Charles Nelson Reilly
#5. I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
John F. Kerry
#6. I want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.
Kendall Jenner
#7. A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#9. I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.
Josh Young
#10. Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
Gustave Meyrink
#11. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
#12. When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.
David Letterman
#13. This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
J.I. Packer
#14. I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.
Bob Hope
#15. I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone - then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)
Idries Shah
#16. The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.
David Hockney
