Samba Music Quotes

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If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.
Shah Asad Rizvi
context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. I mean, lets face it:when you're eating simple barbecue under a palm tree, and you feel sand between your toes, samba music is playing softly in the backgroud, waves are lapping at the shore a few yards off, a gentle breeze is cooling the sweat on the back of your neck at the hairline, and looking across the table, past the column of empty Red Stripes at the dreamy expression on your companion's face, you realize that in half an hour you're proably going to be having sex on clean white hotel sheets, that grilled chicken leg suddenly tastes a hell of a lot better
Anthony Bourdain (A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines)
Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
Shah Asad Rizvi
We all take for granted things that come too easily. That's why I can't let you go--you're always a challenge to me. Here's my wow to you, here's all I believe: For you, I'll stay invisble. I"ll be the air you breathe.
Frances de Pontes Peebles (The Air You Breathe)
India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take modern Indian music of the films. It is all tango & rhumba or samba played on Hawaiian guitars, violins, accordions & clarinets. It is ugly. It must be scrapped like the rest.
Khushwant Singh (Train to Pakistan)
Turbo Sasquatch, or T-Squatch, was a Redwood original, a hardrock pop-punk bhangra electro surf hybrid that did highly danceable sambas. It was a supergroup, a mighty Voltron formed from three other successful local bands. Sometimes they had a dhol drum and horn section depending on the lineup, becoming Ultra Mega Turbo Sasquatch, a musical macrophage mashup absorbing other bands at will. They played only by the light of the full moon and were not to be missed under any circumstances. “The only band that matters,” it was said.
Johannes Johns (The Redwood Revenger)
If I hear notes in music I see each note visually. This is called synesthesia. Each one is as visually distinct as it is auditorally. Bach is geometric. Beethoven is like very long leaps of fire and light. Prokofiev is intricate scenes of lights and movement. Mozart is curly bands of lights and rosy colors. Jazz is sharp angles of light. Opera is lots of really huge deep lightning bolts. Pop is short simple bands of light. Rap is not a pretty sight. It is like an angry visual mess. I don’t enjoy it, but I do like samba and Latin rhythms. Those have cool bouncy lights and colors.
Ido Kedar (Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison)
There were occasional dances at the main prison compound with live bands as well as holiday dinners, activities that Blanche greatly enjoyed. In her scrapbooks, she placed an autographed promotional photograph of one visiting band, The Rural Ramblers. ... Blanche loved to dance and by all accounts she was very good at it. She applied to a correspondence course in dancing that came complete with diagrams of select dance steps to place on the floor and practice. She also cut similar dance instructions and diagrams from newspapers and magazines and put them in her scrapbooks. By 1937, she had mastered popular dances like jitterbug, rumba, samba, and tango. The men’s prison, or “the big prison” as the women called it, hosted movies on Friday nights. Features like Roll Along Cowboy ... were standard, usually accompanied by some short musical feature such as Who’s Who and a newsreel. The admission was five cents. Blanche attended many of these movies. She loved movies all of her life. Blanche Barrow’s periodic visits to the main prison allowed her to fraternize with males. She apparently had a brief encounter with “the boy in the warden’s office” in the fall of 1934. There are few details, but their relationship was evidently ended abruptly by prison officials in December. There were other suitors, some from Blanche Barrow’s past, and some late arrivals...
John Neal Phillips (My Life with Bonnie and Clyde)
Take art and music. Why has contemporary Indian painting, music, architecture and sculpture been such a flop? Because it keeps harking back to BC. Harking back would be all right if it did not become a pattern—a deadweight. If it does, then we are in a cul-de-sac of art forms. We explain the unattractive by pretending it is esoteric. Or we break out altogether—like modern Indian music of the films. It is all tango and rhumba or samba played on Hawaiian guitars, violins, accordions and clarinets. It is ugly. It must be scrapped like the rest.
Khushwant Singh (Train to Pakistan)
Passar quatro dias e quatro noites em casa, vendo o carnaval passar; ou não vendo nem isso, mas entregue a uma outra e cifrada folia, que nesta quarta-feira de cinzas abre suas pétalas de cansaço, como se também tivéssemos pulado e berrado no clube. Não ligar a televisão, esquecer-se do rádio; deixar os locutores falando sozinhos, na ânsia de encher de discurso uma festa à base de movimento e de canto. Perceber apenas o grito trêmulo, trazido e levado pelo vento, de um samba que marca realidade lúdica sem nos convidar à integração. Beneficiar-se com a ausência de jornais, que prova a inexistência provisória do mundo como arquitetura de notícias. Ter como companheiro o irmão gato Crispim, exemplo de abstenção sem sacrifício, manual de silêncio e sabedoria, aventureiro que experimentou a vertigem da luta-livre nos telhados e homologa a invenção da poltrona. Penetrar no vazio do tempo sem obrigações, como num parque fechado, aproveitando a ausência de guardas, e descobrindo nele tudo que as tabuletas omitem. Aceitar a solidão; escolhê-la; desfrutá-la. Sorrir dos psiquiatras que falam em alienação do mundo e recomendam a terapêutica de grupo. Estimar a pausa como valor musical, o intervalo, o hiato. O instante em que a agulha fere o disco sem despertar ainda qualquer som. Andar de um quarto para outro sem ser à procura de objetos: achando-os. Descobrir, sem mescalina, as cores que a cor esconde; os timbres entrelaçados no ruído. Olhar para as paredes, ou melhor, olhar as paredes em torno dos quadros. Sentir a casa como um todo e como partículas densas, tensas, expectantes, acostumadas a viver sem nós, à nossa revelia, contra o nosso desdém. Habitar realmente a casa, quatro dias: como ilha, fortaleza, continente; infinito no finito; reconsiderar os livros, arrumá-los primeiro com método, depois com voluptuosidade, fazendo com que cada prateleira exija o maior tempo possível; verificar que antes é preciso tirar a poeira de um, remover a boba capa de celofane que envolve a encadernação de outro. Reler dedicatórias, abrir ao acaso livros de poetas que preferimos e que infelizmente não são os mais modernos, nem os mais célebres; copiar meia estrofe por onde corre arrepio verbal; separar volumes que não nos falam mais nada e que devem tentar seu destino em outras casas. Sentir chegada a hora dos álbuns de pintura com pouco ou nenhum texto, e dos volumes iconográficos que nos contam Paris ou a vida de Mallarmé. Viajar em fotografias; sentir-se imagem flutuando entre imagens; a terra domesticada em figura, tornada familiar sem perda de sua essência enigmática. Reconhecer que muitos livros comprados a duras penas, pedidos ao estrangeiro ou longamente minerados nos sebos, não têm mais do que essa oportunidade de comunicação durante o ano; deixar que fiquem a sós conosco e nos confiem seu segredo. Admitir a fome, sem exigência de horário, e matá-la com o que houver à mão; renunciar à idéia de almoço e jantar, com reverência ao sagrado direito que assiste a todos, inclusive e principalmente às cozinheiras, de brincarem o seu carnaval; achar mais gosto nessa comida, porque não é regulamentar nem é seguida de nada: todas as obrigações estão suspensas, e só valem as que soubermos traçar a nós mesmos. Descortinar na preguiça um espaço incomensurável, onde cabe tudo; não enchê-lo demais; devassá-lo à maneira de um explorador que não quer ser muito rico e tanto sente prazer em descobrir como em procurar. Assim vosso cronista passou o carnaval: sem fugir, sem brincar, divertido em seu canto umbroso.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (A Bolsa e a Vida)