Grammy Award Winners

"You took a train to the south side of Boston. You showed me where your old man stayed. Took twenty-eight years of blood I was lost in To feel loved on my own birthday. And I always felt like I's in between somethin' Like home and somewhere far away. But tonight on the west side in a bar out in Brooklyn I saw tears outline your face.How lucky are we? It's been a hell of a week, but you're all grown now. There's smoke seepin' out of your bloody teeth But you're home somehow."

"I do not and will not fear tomorrow because I feel as though today has been enough."

"But love's gonna bring you home, Even God didn't see it comin'. But no matter where you're at, We'll always find the way back."

"Well, I've had cold and humid mornings on city streets and back porches, But I ain’t never breathed a breath as fresh as you. And I've seen children playin' on the coastlines under the white lines, atop the blue tides, But I ain’t ever been baptized in water as cool as you."

"Give me my dawns back 'Cause everything that dies makes its way on back. I lost her last July in a heart attack. I need one small victory."

"We're laying on the roof of my car, Feelin' young, feelin' numb, feelin' starved Of all the things that a moment can be. This one's best kept a memory, The purest parts of my heart are you and me."

"He said the sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow. You better pack your bags west, Stick out your chest And then hit the road. The sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow. Don't give it a reason to follow. Let it be, then let it go. Let it be, then let it go."

"I'm movin' at God speed. Only God and my mama know what I need. And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees, As I beg you just to take it easy on me. I'm movin' at God speed."

"Come as you are, however broken, And we will see if we can make you whole again. Come as you are, with your heart wide open; The bridges that you've burned, they are still there, just floatin'."

"You don't have to drink tonight. Why don’t we just get some sleep? 'Cause I'm tired of cryin’ in driveways As you slur the words you speak. I know growin' up Has been an evil thing to you. Makes you awfully hard to love From a lover's point of view."

"So don't get hateful, Lord, hot damn There's a fire burnin' in the back forty. I'm still findin' out who the hell I am. And I'm so tired of wastin' it away, Gonna find the time to realize I’m in deep on better days."

"It's a motorcycle drive by, baby, dry your kind eyes, I think it's about time we headed home. Walkin' on such tight rope with my damn high hopes That country boys don't die alone."

"And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't, 'Cause if I say I miss you, I know that you won't. But I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun, Somethin' in the orange tells me we're not done."

"To you, I'm just a man; to me, you're all I am. Where the hell am I supposed to go? I poisoned myself again, somethin' in the orange Tells mе you're never comin' homе. If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way. The orange touches all things around. The grass, trees, and dew, how I just hate you, Please turn those headlights around."

"I love winners when they cry, Losers when they try."

"I love coffee in a cup, Little fuzzy pups, Bourbon in a glass, And grass."

"It's faster horses Younger women Older whiskey More money."

"Ain't but three things in this world that's worth a solitary dime, But old dogs and children and watermelon wine."

"Yes, a monkey was the President, though maybe not the first And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe."

"Whiskey's too rough Champagne costs too much Vodka puts my mouth in gear This little refrain Should help me explain As a matter of fact I like beer (He likes beer)."

"Every conductor–even those who, like me, were born in Britain and raised in the United States–must sooner or later confront the ghost of Arturo Toscanini."

"He projected the figure of the conductor beyond the stage. Every legend has a surplus, an excess of image. However, when he conducted, he was spare, he knew how to extract the essence from a score without adding any artifice."

"When Toscanini conducted, it was like fate striking, infallible, inexorable. His innate sense of rhythm, his memory, were prodigious. Operas and concerts, he conducted them all from memory, without a score."

"1909, the Edwardian golden days. Genteel civilization had come to England, the continent, and the eastern United States. New York rivaled London and Paris as one of the great metropolises of the world. Albert Einstein had expounded his theory of relativity back in 1905, and science had brought us the wonders of the modern world. Culture and refinement had arrived on the east coast of America. Caruso was singing Pagliacci at the Met. Arturo Toscanini was conducting. The Barrymores were performing and a Ziegfeld girl was the rage."

"He was a great conductor, a true "servant" of music, he was the one who taught us to respect the scores, but he was also a great man, who never used music for self-interest... He was one of the three artists who radically changed the history of musical interpretation. The other two great names are Liszt, for his way of playing the piano, and Paganini for his revolutionary way of playing the violin."

"My dear Maestro, my great friend, come to Fiume d'Italia, if you can. Here today is the most resonant air in the world. And the soul of the people is as symphonic as your orchestra. The Legionaries await the Fighter who once led the warrior chorus."

"I feel the necessity to tell you for once how much I admire and honor you. You are not only the unmatchable interpreter of the world’s musical literature [...] In the fight against the fascist criminals, too, you have shown yourself to be a man of greatest dignity [...] The fact that such a contemporary exists balances many of the delusions one must continually experience from the species minorum gentium."

"Everyone here is celebrating me—everyone is raving about me! […] Tonight I have my first concert. It's useless for me to say it, but you can imagine how nervous I am... I'm the eternal beginner. Perhaps the only person who doesn't hold myself in esteem..."

"Every rehearsal is like a concert, and every concert like a debut."

"Look at him. He is one of your kind, gaunt like you. His head is carved in hard bone, between chin and forehead, with those deep hollows that form between ear and nose when he clenches his lips and jaw, with that frown that brings to mind the wild gaze of a swan beneath the swelling of its beak, with that neck that energy dilates as if to fill it with unspoken commands. Look at him. Look at his hand holding the scepter. His scepter is a wand as light as an elder rod; and it raises the great waves of the orchestra, releases the great torrents of harmony, opens the cataracts of the great river, digs the forces from the depths and carries them to the summit, restrains the tumults and reduces them to whispers, creates light and shadow, creates serenity and storm, creates mourning and jubilation… Who is he then? He is a Chief as I am a Chief, O my people."

"Qui finisce l'opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto."

"La Scala is the lover who made me despair the most"

"They ask me what my secret is. My secret is very simple: it consists in having the music performed, note by note, as the author wrote it."

"[While witnessing Cantelli conduct for the first time] That's me!"

"[Arturo Toscanini is] the greatest conductor in the world."

"[After hearing Marian Anderson perform] What I heard today one is privileged to hear only once in a hundred years."

"[Upon learning of the beating of Toscanini by a group of Fascist Blackshirts] I am really happy. It will teach a good lesson to these boorish musicians."

"I take traditional rhythms and blend them with electronic instruments on my computer. For example, when I travel, I listen to all kinds of music. Now, I like listening to urban music. But urban music from Africa originates from traditional music. Only the instruments, the choice of electronic instruments, change. But the sound, the rhythm, remains the same."

"The album ‘Zouzou’ continues the tradition of featuring Ivory Coast artists in my albums. It’s mostly composed and arranged in the Ivory Coast by Dr. Wang, a young producer who worked with Malian R&B star Aya Nakamura. So, it’s a more modern, urban album that I plan to release in February 2024"

"For me, every new album feels like a fresh beginning. It’s a new Dobet, a new story. I’m continuously growing and evolving in my music, infusing it with my emotions and experiences."

"With the vaccines available now, things are starting to improve. The confinement is ending. Bars can be open outside in the open air, but not inside yet. I think in another six months we will be back to normal."

"The messages are messages of hope. That is the new energy that I want to put out. Anyone who listens to this album will sense that it is about movement. That is what I told Tam. I want people to dance. And we started with that. I wanted people to feel the African origin, but also a little bit of electro and Afro, but the most important thing was that the people dance."

"Yes it's been a very difficult year. We haven't been able to do anything public. But it has allowed me to concentrate on this album, Couleur. And the next album too. Because I had the time to compose, I'm already working on the next one, and I have a lot of material."

"There was no real progress,” she acknowledged in Pulse!. “I wasn’t making any money out of it, so I just stopped"

"Because I couldn’t find anyone to help me out in Cape Verde, I had to start recording in France in 1988"

"In Cape Verde ... I used to sing for tourists and for the ships when they would come there"

"They’re going to feel my message through my presence and my music"

"Now I work, and I see the results of my work, so I have some money,” she says. “But I’m still the same person that I was before. I still have the same simple life. I still have the same friends"

"Life in the islands is not easy, because there are very few resources, and you could say that my life and life in the islands are related"

"I wasn’t astonished by Europe and I was never that impressed by the speed and grandeur of modern America"