Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

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• The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Long
  • Want
  • CEO

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Face
  • Going
  • Used

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Occurred

• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

  

  David Lloyd George
  • People
  • Rest

• I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Music
  • Character
  • Light

• You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!

  

  Brian Blade
  • Music
  • Results
  • Risks

• The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Music
  • True