Dave Davies Quotes

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

Dave Davies The Kinks

• Music
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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

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• 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

• 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

• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Better

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

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

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Done
  • Character
  • Theatre

• I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Never
  • Educated

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Car

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.

  

  Maluma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Love

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Support
  • Tour

• There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

  

  Christopher Lee

• Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Great

• I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Music
  • Healing
  • Mindset