Vanessa Carlton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
-
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
-
I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
-
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
-
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
-
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
-
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
-
There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
-
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
-
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
-
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
-
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
-
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
-
'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
-
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
-
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
-
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
-
I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
-
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
-
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
-
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.
-
I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
-
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
