Dave Sitek Quotes
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
-
If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
-
My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
-
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
-
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
-
It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
-
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
-
The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
-
I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
-
The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
-
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
-
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
-
It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
-
My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.
-
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
-
When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
-
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
-
I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
-
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
-
People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
-
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
