First Heard Quotes
46 quotes by 45 authors
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Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.
— Giovanni Ruffini
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Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get…
— Blake Mycoskie
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In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,…
— George Carlin
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Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody…
— Sara Maitland
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I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of…
— Barack Obama
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I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.
— Lucinda Williams
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..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like…
— Bob Dylan
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I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the…
— Robert Hanbury Brown
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I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A…
— Count Basie
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I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately…
— Ahmet Ertegun
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When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
— Willard Wigan
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When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
— Charlie Parker
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But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my…
— Terry Kath
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When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing…
— Richard Rodney Bennett
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When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,
— Akon
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you…
— Steve Vai
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Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
— Billy Gibbons
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I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial…
— Guy Berryman
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When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about…
— Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Who Wrote These First Heard Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 46 First Heard Quotes, led by these top contributors: