Jason Reynolds Quotes
I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all.
Jason Reynolds
Quotes to Explore
If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
Zoe Kazan
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
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
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
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.
Washed Out
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy
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
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
Edgar Winter
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
Damien Chazelle
I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
Maceo Parker
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Faith Hill
I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.
Andris Nelsons
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
Chick Corea
Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.
Daniel Levitin
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
Vint Cerf
Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
H. L. Mencken
I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all.
Jason Reynolds
