quotes about Timbre

last updated: November 28, 2023

I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.
-- Greil Marcus

Source : "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

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“We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah's first independence speech, www.myjoyonline.com. March 6, 1957.
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
“You can only understand if you've had the technique done to you. It's like food. You can't describe the taste, but if you've tasted it, you know what it is. You have to personally experience it to understand.”
“Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.”
“I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.”
“You can hire a bodyguard, to protect you at the bank for example.”
“Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!”
“The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.”
“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”
“Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.”