Accepted Quote by Alistair Cooke Download Open image “Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.” — Alistair Cooke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accepted Cocktails Music Music is
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do. — Diana Penty Copy Share Image
Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe!… — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they… — Andre Pratte Copy Share Image
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image