Ska Music Quotes

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

Ezra Koenig

#2. 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

#3. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

Stephen King

#4. A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

Roger Ebert

#5. 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

#6. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

#7. For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Simon Baker

#9. We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science "without presuppositions

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.

Tove Lo

#11. People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.

Niecy Nash

#12. 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

#13. I'm a mess, but I'm not an idiot. I just wanted to be alone and think depressing thoughts.

Cassandra Clare

#14. The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Nas

#15. Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar

#16. My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

Pete Hamill

#17. In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

Pericles

#18. I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Charlotte Whitton