Valerie June Quotes

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

He spent his whole life in plastering together the true and the false and therefrom extracting the plausible.

E Pluribus Unum [One out of many]

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.