Mel Brooks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
-
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
-
I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
-
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
-
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
-
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
-
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
-
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
-
There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
-
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
-
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
-
I think music docs could turn off some people.
-
I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong.
-
I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.
-
What is necessary at this stage in our evolution is not a 'return' to the psychic powers of our ancestors, but an expansion of our own potential powers, based upon the certain knowledge that such powers exist.
-
But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.
-
My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.
-
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
