Eddie Murphy Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
Carlos Santana Santana -
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey -
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn -
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
Beck
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Barry Humphries -
Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
Yoenis Cespedes -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
Karen DeCrow -
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
Daniel Ek -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving -
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
Daniel Barenboim -
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Aaron Carter -
Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.
Malala Yousafzai -
Well, my brother started acting before I did.
Abigail Breslin
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
Sebastiao Salgado -
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
Jane Smiley -
I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
K. D. Lang -
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Ayad Akhtar -
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
Philippe Petit -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy