Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
-
Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
-
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
-
I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
-
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
-
I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
-
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
-
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
-
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
-
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
-
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
-
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.
-
You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
-
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
-
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
-
Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.
-
I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
-
Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.
