Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
-
Social revolutions are never simple.
-
You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
-
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
-
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
-
Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
-
I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
-
There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
-
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
-
There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
-
Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
-
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
-
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
-
Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
-
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
-
The Brewers Association, a trade group of some 2000 small and independent brewers, was founded in 2005 to be a 'passionate voice for craft brewers' and craft beer, and it has made itself as vocal as the bigger Beer Institute.
-
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.
-
I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
-
Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.
-
My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
-
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
