A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
‐‐ Dave Grohl
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
‐‐ Thomas Beecham
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi
A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
‐‐ Jason Sudeikis
A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.
‐‐ Bruce Beutler
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
‐‐ Jean Hanff Korelitz
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
‐‐ James Larkin
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
‐‐ M. J. Rose
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
‐‐ Alan Watts
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
‐‐ Annie Besant
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
‐‐ David Antin
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus
A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
‐‐ Art Blakey
A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
‐‐ Jon Postel
A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
‐‐ James Salter
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
‐‐ John Updike
A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
‐‐ Edmund Waller
A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.
‐‐ Burt Rutan
A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
‐‐ Dambisa Moyo
A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
‐‐ Richard Lamm
A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
‐‐ Richard Lamm
A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
‐‐ Otto Bauer
A nation is an organic thing.
‐‐ Peter Brimelow
A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.
‐‐ Max Lucado
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
‐‐ Barbara Jordan
A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
‐‐ Steven Weber
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
‐‐ James Joyce
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
‐‐ Abdelaziz Bouteflika
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
‐‐ Frank Whittle
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
‐‐ Indira Gandhi
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
‐‐ David McCullough