Jon Batiste Quotes

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

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• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Family
  • Support
  • Doing

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Want
  • Tyrants
  • Seldom

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Know
  • Trump

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Nation
  • Rights

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Jerusalem

• Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Great
  • Death
  • Mum

• I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Want
  • Look

• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Getting
  • Getting Older

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Science

• I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

  

  Elizabeth Warren

• Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Live
  • Start

• I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• Well I wasn't going to die. You didn't die of a broken heart, it just felt like you were going to. I knew from personal experience that if you just kept moving, acting as if you weren't bleeding inside you didn't die, and eventually you stopped wanting to.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Die

• With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Music
  • Live
  • Experience