Quotes About Calypso Music

#1. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.

Mollie Marti

#2. But everything's always been fucked up. Since the dawn of time. That's why people find each other. For comfort. For shelter. They find their own little crevice in the world, shielded from all the horror.

Drew Magary

#3. Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Tony Robbins

#4. The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

Harry Belafonte

#5. I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

Anthony Mackie

#6. We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

Thomas Szasz

#7. The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.

Ashley Pullo

#8. You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

DeForest Kelley

#9. I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

Zoe McLellan

#10. Beautiful things make people happy.

Eva Zeisel

#11. For it is better to know you are ignorant than to be ignorant and think otherwise.

James Spiegel

#12. Infinite are the arguments of mages,

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. You're that lady," Leo said. "The one who was named after Caribbean music."
Her eyes glinted murderously. "Caribbean music."
"Yeah. Reggae?" Leo shook his head. "Merengue? Hold on, I'll get it."
He snapped his fingers. "Calypso!

Rick Riordan

#14. I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful ... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

Eminem

#15. Yuh cyah vex when soca playin

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.

Machel Montano

#17. All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Afrika Bambaataa