Jeff Daniels Quotes

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Jeff Daniels

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• 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
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• 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 don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Ready

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I was acting before I did music, so it is an easier transition for me in my own mindset.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • Music
  • Mindset

• I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Singing
  • I Love
  • Writers

• Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Work

• The fact of the matter is our homes are on the frontlines when it comes to protecting and conserving our critical water resources - more than that, they are also key to protecting our health.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Health
  • Water

• My dear Hardman, It was pleasant... I am sorry that your Oriental venture has not been going as well as you expected. But, then, I think that the days when a man could expect to make his fortune in the East are dead and gone. Indeed, the time seems to have come for the reverse of the old process to apply, and for the East to dominate the West.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Sorry

• Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Music
  • Singing