Indian Quotes - Page 17

• Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Rocks, India, Drumming

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Chords, Scales, Collapse

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Different, Unusual

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Cutting, Men, Dust

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• For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

  Bipasha Basu

  Reality, Thinking, Anorexia

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• England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

  Eva Green

  Chinese, France, Cuisine

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• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Hero, Play, Perception

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• Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Land, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Giving, Rope

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• I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

  Jack Benny

  Long, Matter, Facts

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• I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

  Dean Acheson

  Snakes, Feelings, Watches

  Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson (2010). “Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971”, p.275, Knopf

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• I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It was like an excursion for me from my normal routine and the Indian movies I do and that helped.

  A. R. Rahman

  Christian, Team, New Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• What is good is what it's going to lead to, like the song "Jai Ho." If good numbers are going to come in the future, it bodes well for a lot of things. But then, who's going to maintain that. That's the question. So far they could never lead to an Indian song, like a normal film song in this that they can relate to.

  A. R. Rahman

  Song, Numbers, Normal

  Source: collider.com

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• I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Composer A.R. Rahman Interview 127 HOURS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

  Luis Gonzalez

  People, Outsiders, Looks

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Sadness, Order, Important

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

  Brie Larson

  Mom, Turkeys, Play

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• The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

  Suzy Menkes

  Empires, Heiress, Fallen

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• While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail, but rather will be presented as a broad and luminous picture.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Thinking, Stories, Details

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo”, p.15, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Latin, Mean

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• There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.

  Roy Stryker

  Differences, Interesting, Honest

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• I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

  Dolly Parton

  Italian, Mexican, Restaurants

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• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  Vidya Balan

  Children, Honesty, Self

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• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, Doe

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

  John Lennon

  Listening, Records, Enjoy

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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