Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Music
  • Always
  • Star

• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Care
  • Poetry

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

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

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

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

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Poetry
  • Everything
  • Soft

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Style
  • Identity

• You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Mad

• We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.

  

  Steve Porcaro
  • People
  • Music
  • Entertain

• I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Boxing
  • Las Vegas
  • Meccas

• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Desert
  • Surface
  • Island

• There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Painting