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

• 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

• 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

• 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'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Music

• The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Music
  • Business
  • History

• I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Life
  • Music

• I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Music
  • Silence

• For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.

  

  Ciara
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Sun
  • Place
  • Blue

• Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

  

  will.i.am
  • Mind
  • Therapy
  • Sane

• I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Country
  • Feels
  • Poke

• He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Reading

• 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