Paul Simonon Quotes

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

Paul Simonon

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• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Musicians

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Brain
  • Seizure

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Race

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. On my first album, I had a song called 'Confessions of a Teenage Girl.' It's about using your feminine wealth to get what you want.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Music
  • Song
  • Girl

• When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Music
  • Game

• I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Music
  • Different
  • Live

• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  

  George Haven Putnam

• I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Chicago

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.

  

  James Costos
  • Business

• There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

  

  Paul Simonon
  • Music
  • Way
  • Painting