Dave Attell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
-
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
-
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
-
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
-
I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
-
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
-
I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
-
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
-
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
-
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.
-
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
-
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
-
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
-
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
-
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
-
There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.
-
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
-
(on his inability to read music) 'If someone lays the notes on a page in front of me, it's meaningless...because to me you can't express the rhythms properly like that. It's a very ineffective way of doing it, so I've never really bothered picking it up.' source
-
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
-
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
-
I had to wait my turn. I had to learn that even when you're sitting behind somebody, you still have a chance to learn something every single day.
-
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
