David Crosby Quotes
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.David Crosby The Byrds
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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 -
I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
K. Flay -
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
Zaha Hadid -
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain -
'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
Maggie Rowe -
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
Natalie Dormer -
Business is tough; you need tough guys.
Carlos Ghosn -
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
Vidal Sassoon -
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
Quentin Blake -
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India -
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
Patricia Schroeder -
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil -
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
Marianne Williamson -
It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.
Jordin Sparks -
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.
Adam West -
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.
David Crosby The Byrds