Quotes About Brazilian Music

#1. It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

David Byrne

#2. This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

Herb Alpert

#3. We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Arto Lindsay

#4. Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

Chuck Mangione

#5. We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

Matthew McConaughey

#6. I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

John Legend

#7. Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

Andrew S. Gilbert

#8. My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.

Bradford Cox

#9. I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

Herbie Mann

#10. For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

Herbie Mann

#11. Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

Rob Manuel

#12. If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Wayne Newton

#13. But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Philip Levine

#14. Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

John Earle

#15. You can't really innovate for the past (your offering won't be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.

Braden Kelley

#16. Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

Lee Ritenour

#17. Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

John Walters

#18. Scott Feiner is a soulful magnet for the fusion of Brazilian and jazz music ...

Kurt Rosenwinkel

#19. In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Walker Percy

#20. Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

Ednita Nazario

#21. There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't.

Jennifer Weiner