Quotes About Ska

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

King Krule

#2. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Kim Edwards

#3. Reality is perception perception change ... reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing

Dean Koontz

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

Gillian Flynn

#5. Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion ...

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish."

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#7. Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

Clovis Chappell

#8. The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

Jennifer Granholm

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.

Octave Feuillet

#12. What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Chris Daughtry

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Ezra Koenig

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

Douglas Coupland