Jeff Bridges Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
-
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
-
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
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.
-
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
-
Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
-
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.
-
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
-
Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
-
'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
-
My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with God versus how I sing. People in church are like, 'You sing the devil's music,' but I believe in balance. I can't just party with you. I got to help you, too.
-
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
-
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
-
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
-
Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
