Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.Janelle Monae
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger -
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
Lars von Trier -
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
Victoria Azarenka
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I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.
Taylor Momsen -
In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
Malin Akerman -
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
Tanya Tucker -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones -
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
Sam Hunt -
Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
Flume -
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'Connor -
Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
Harold Feinstein
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
Eric Allin Cornell -
There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.
Mat Kearney -
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.
Eleanor Catton -
I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.
Janelle Monae