Daniel Tammet Quotes

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved.

Daniel Tammet

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• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Country
  • Much

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Impact

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• I like writing about biology, not doing it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Biology

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

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Understanding
  • Step

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Great
  • Music
  • May

• For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Chance

• To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • God

• Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Small

• I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.

  

  Brant Daugherty
  • Time
  • Long

• The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Music
  • Understanding