Charli XCX Quotes

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
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  • President

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Success
  • More
  • Show

• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Ready

• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Real
  • Trying

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Music
  • Stressed

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Done
  • Die

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Cook

• At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Father
  • Words

• When in college, I would hardly attend classes. In fact, we would go to other colleges and hang out there. Every six months, my friends and I would hit the roads and go to Goa. We weren't rich kids, and our trips were on shoestring budgets. But, we hardly cut down on the fun.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Business
  • Vision

• Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • People
  • Breathe

• I was 15 when I started making music properly.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music