Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Donald Ray Pollock

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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Different
  • Unique

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Destiny

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Different
  • You
  • Technology

• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Just
  • Here

• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• Once a champion, always a champion.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Champion
  • Once

• I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Never

• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • History
  • Sick

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

  

  Phil Ramone
  • World
  • Music

• I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

  

  Adam Rickitt
  • Music
  • Girl

• When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

  

  Bill Gross
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Parents
  • Pain
  • Growing Up

• I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

  

  Donald Ray Pollock
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing