Bryson Tiller Quotes
Everybody always thinks you have to move out of the city and go where the music industry is, but it's possible in Louisville, and it's possible anywhere. You just have to believe.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
-
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
-
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
-
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
-
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
-
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
-
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
-
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
-
I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
-
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
-
I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
-
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
-
I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
-
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
-
The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
-
I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
-
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
-
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
-
I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
-
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
-
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
-
There is only a single step between impurity and purity.
-
Everybody always thinks you have to move out of the city and go where the music industry is, but it's possible in Louisville, and it's possible anywhere. You just have to believe.
