Pedro Reyes Quotes
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-
But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
-
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
-
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
-
Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
-
There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
-
I will keep painting until I die.
-
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
-
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
-
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
-
The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
-
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
-
I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
-
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
-
You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
-
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
-
There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.
-
I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.
-
I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
-
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
-
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.
