Paolo Nutini Quotes
As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.
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If I don't do some sort of exercise in a day, I do get in a terrible mood. That's always been true.
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You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.
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Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?
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I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.
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As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
