History Quote by Leon Redbone

“The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.”

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Who told you I was a musician?

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What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

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Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way…

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The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

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I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has…

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If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

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I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense…

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I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that…

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I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing…

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There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

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I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye,…

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I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens,…

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Simon Schama

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

Frederick Buechner

The NBA is my history.

Penny Hardaway

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the…

Angela Merkel

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

John Dryden

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Jean Cocteau

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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

David Fahrenthold

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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of…

Allison Schroeder

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

Edgar Mitchell