Paul Weller Quotes

Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
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• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Strange
  • Two

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
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• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • School
  • Dance

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
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  • Father
  • North Carolina

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Arrangements

• If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

  

  Claire Messud
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• Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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  • She
  • Running

• Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

  

  Lela Loren
  • People
  • Women

• I like people to match my energy.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • People
  • Energy

• You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows

  

  Donald Mason

• Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.

  

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