Beth Gibbons Quotes
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
-
I don't think I have a signature.
-
With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
-
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
I studied Morse code.
-
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
-
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
-
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
-
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
-
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
-
Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
-
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
-
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
-
I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
-
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
-
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
-
The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
-
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
-
I was in New York in 2014. It was still cold outside. I was sitting there working on 'Exchange' and 'Right My Wrongs' at the time, and a fan had commented on one of my songs called 'Let Em' Know' that was already on my SoundCloud and said, 'trapsoul movement.'
-
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
-
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
