Paul McDonald Quotes

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

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• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Me
  • Movies

• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Music
  • Stressed

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listen

• Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • History
  • Unique

• A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Human

• I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Degree

• 'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Records
  • Street

• My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

  

  Questlove
  • Music
  • City
  • First

• The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Shadow

• If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Music

• There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

  

  George Bancroft
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Decision

• Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Body
  • Said
  • Devil

• A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

  

  William Bolitho
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Memories

• My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Fans
  • Laughing

• I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

  

  Paul McDonald
  • Music
  • Goal
  • Unique