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Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

Illinois Jacquet

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My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

Sandra Bullock

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I very much like dance and dancers.

Issey Miyake

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I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it.

Sarah Hay

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On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

John Fogerty

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I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

Shawn Mendes

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When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

Paul Simon

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The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

Cliff Richard

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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni

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Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

Diplo

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Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Tom Waits

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I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

Haley Webb

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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

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I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

Rita Ora

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A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.

Harvey Pekar

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War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

Charlotte Lamb

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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

Robert Menzies

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In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.

Misty Copeland

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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

Colleen Atwood

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I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

Graeme Murphy

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