Jonathan Demme Quotes
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-
I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
-
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
-
There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
-
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
-
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
-
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
-
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
-
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
-
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
-
My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
-
My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
-
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
-
I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
-
I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.
-
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.
-
My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the president of the largest Christian university. I think I have a responsibility to be a good citizen. The least I can do is to lend my name and whatever influence I have to make a difference politically.
-
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
-
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.
-
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.
