A Quote by Tom Waits

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

Tom Waits

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Anything Component Culture Economic Important Like Most Music Purely Terrible The Most Important

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Tom Waits
American - Musician
Born: December 7, 1949

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

Munira Mirza

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

Maria Bartiromo

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Tom Waits

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Martin Freeman

I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.

Amandla Stenberg

Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.

Gordon Raphael

Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

Piet Oudolf

The most important thing is I am trying to bring classic rock into pop culture, so I don't think anything is going to look like vintage or old-school.

Chloe Kohanski

Work ethic is the most important component of being successful.

Kliff Kingsbury

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.

Kode9

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

Alexander Payne

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Milton Friedman

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.