A Quote by David Shields

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

David Shields

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Art Banging Been Drums First First Person Music Person Since

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David Shields
American - Author
Born: July 22, 1956

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

Dick Dale

Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo Box to art, artists and designers have been blurring the lines between fine art and commerce.

Debbie Millman

Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.

Opal Tometi

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

Bazzi

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

Ikue Mori

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

Ann Patchett

I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.

Charlotte Casiraghi

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.

Nicolas Winding Refn

I've been playing drums since I was 7.

Lucky Blue Smith

I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.

A.J. Styles

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

William R. Alger

I've always loved music since I was 11. I used to play keyboard, and I would write music. So since 11, I've been falling in love with music.

Jorja Smith

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

Bill Berry

I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.