#lined

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brazilian music #concept #disciplined #harmonies #i

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#apart #back #back up #being #compass

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#economics #generally #i #inclined #most

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment. ↗

— John Mayer

#becoming #completely #every #everything #front

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#aggressive #am #art #attitude #desires

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#craft #disciplined #father #growing #growing up

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#christianity #come #down #exclude #give

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#among #derive #disputes #explain #how

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#alone #another #fortunate #give #giving

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#better #cannot #child #discipline #disciplined