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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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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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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I know what poverty is.
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It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
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“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
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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.
