Paul Weller Quotes

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

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• Good sports facilities are a blessing.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Blessing

• Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Power
  • Guitar

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Voice
  • Reach
  • Social Media

• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Long
  • Sword

• I am the skeptic of skeptics.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Skeptic

• Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Family
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Important
  • Success
  • Single

• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
  • Ethical

• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Day
  • Gym
  • Worried

• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Why
  • Without

• Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Joy

• The people who Bitch about life the most are the people who secretly love bitching

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Life

• Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Up
  • Moon

• One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Necessity
  • Gives
  • Hears

• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  

  James Joyce

• It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen

• It's nice to be rewarded. If I get more ice time, I get more opportunity. I know if I play more I can contribute to the team. I want to be a bigger factor than I've been.

  

  Georges Laraque
  • Opportunity
  • Ice
  • Contribute

• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Reading

• When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito