Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Nicholas James Murphy

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• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Intelligent
  • Try

• It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Growth
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Will

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Night

• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • You
  • College
  • Back

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Live
  • Amazing
  • Weather

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Power
  • Debt

• What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Together
  • Culture

• I'm living out my dreams every day.

  

  Bozoma Saint John

• I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Music

• The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Up
  • Art
  • She

• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, 'Action;' and which was the second, he replied, 'Action;' and which was the third, he still answered, 'Action.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Action

• I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music