Mat Kearney Quotes

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

Mat Kearney

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Memory

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Women
  • History

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Children
  • Love

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Model
  • YouTube

• Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Words
  • Mean
  • Where

• You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

  

  Sallust
  • Up
  • Great
  • Just

• I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • School
  • Band
  • Songs

• I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • People
  • Years
  • Model

• I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Job

• I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Song
  • Playing
  • Piano

• My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

  

  Stuart Scott
  • Black
  • Style
  • Hip Hop

• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • College
  • Course
  • Mac

• Travel spoils you for regular life.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Travel
  • Regular Life

• What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Attitude
  • Victory
  • Psychology

• I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

  

  Mat Kearney