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We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Chuck Mangione

Rock, May, Play

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
Carole King

Enjoy, Energy, Both

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
Rebecca Hall

Book, Everything, Through

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.
Paz Vega

Life, Love, Problems

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
Brian De Palma

Music, Time, Listen

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Brian De Palma

Work, Live, Number

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
Angela Davis

Work, True, Black

I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
Thomas Haden Church

Important, Two, Writer

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
Vince Gill

Time, Past, Country

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
Vince Gill

Love, Success, Music

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.
Jim Cantalupo

Family, Old, Won

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.
Michael Connelly

Writing, Between, Write

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
Andrew Davies

Love, Character, Single

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.
Slash

Music, Time, Cool

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
Billy Bragg

Love, Girl, End

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
Diane Wakoski

Good, Poetry, Word

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna Leon

Women, Violence, Against

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
Bruno Tonioli

Love, Art, House

When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
Aaron Sanchez

Life, Time, Important

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Helen Dunmore

Writing, Far, Concerned

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
David Dinkins

Time, Hope, History

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.
Thurston Moore

Try, Band, Break

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
Larry J. Sabato

American, President, System

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
George Crumb

Past, Important, Might

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb

Music, Sense, Far

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Rupert Sheldrake

Science, Reality, Philosophy

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
Andres Serrano

Hard, Makes, Seriously

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.
Michael Tilson Thomas

Music, Art, Interested

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
Jonathan Coe

Place, Times, Knew

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Kit Williams

Religion, Society, Ancient

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