James Gray Quotes
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
-
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
-
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.
-
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
-
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
-
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-
I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
-
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
-
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
-
I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
-
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
-
I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
-
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
-
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
-
I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
-
We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
-
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
-
Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.
-
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
-
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
-
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around … I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.
-
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
