"My work sometimes can be abstract and appear……" — Donald Byrd
"My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that."
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9 Quotes by Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd has 9 quotes on this site.
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I don't follow what everybody else does.
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I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,
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Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
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I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.
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My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been…
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I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also…
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I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and…
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It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm…
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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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