Quotes About Origin

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

All great things have small beginnings.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.