Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

Darren Shan

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Energy
  • Growth

• 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 think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

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

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Model
  • View

• I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Taken
  • System
  • Traditions

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Real
  • Soul

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • House
  • Focus

• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Best
  • Wealth

• I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Everyone has to be their own critic.

  

  Diego Costa

• I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Music
  • Silence