Edie Brickell Quotes
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Quotes to Explore
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.
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I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.
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I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
