Jonny Greenwood Quotes

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Same

• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Want
  • Doing
  • New York

• I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Writing
  • She

• I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

  

  Adam Jones
  • More
  • Radio
  • Making

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• We are worried about pressure being put on inspectors by certain circles in Washington

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Pressure
  • Worried
  • Washington

• Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Work
  • Art
  • Experience

• Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • People
  • Long
  • Hatred

• You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Winning
  • Loses
  • Not Afraid

• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Perspective
  • Matters
  • Bin Laden

• People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

  

  Ethel Person
  • Love
  • Experiences
  • Failed

• The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

  

  Katie Davis
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Child

• For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Loss

• I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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