Jens Lekman Quotes
The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
Jens Lekman
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
Samantha Harvey
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney
I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'
Luke Wilson
To cook your hare you must first catch it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
John Williams
To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
Jens Lekman
