Brian Wilson Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe -
I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
Abigail Johnson -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
Flavor Flav -
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
Barack Obama -
I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
Kacey Musgraves
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole -
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
Sam Shepard -
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
Edie Falco
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
Zong Qinghou -
But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons -
I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
Tammy Faye Bakker -
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Fay Weldon -
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
Bayard Rustin -
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sam Harris
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I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim Ferriss -
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
Fat Joe -
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
Eric Bana -
I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.
Chris Van Allsburg -
I believe that music is God's voice.
Brian Wilson