Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.Elvis Costello
Quotes to Explore
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
J. D. Souther -
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Eckhart Tolle -
I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
Aaron Paul -
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
Victoria Osteen
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
Victoria Moran -
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
Jack Dorsey -
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield -
I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
Naya Rivera -
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
Saffron Aldridge -
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
Taya Kyle -
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle -
I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
Gary Bettman -
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
Wayne Kramer -
Life is never free of contradictions.
Manmohan Singh -
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. Naipaul
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I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.
Bipasha Basu -
I refuse to make uninspired music.
Ben Harper -
Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
Adam Lambert -
All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
Patton Oswalt -
Small businesses are the backbone of Oklahoma's economy, creating a large portion of jobs in our state.
Mary Fallin -
I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
Elvis Costello