Eve Ensler Quotes
If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.
Quotes to Explore
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.
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The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.
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I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
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I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
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I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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I think I've always had it in me, ... I just haven't quite been able to put it together for a whole match. Ever since I was a little kid, you always dream about being Top 10 in the world and winning a Grand Slam. I know that's a long way away right now, but hopefully with a lot of hard work, getting a little bit better, maybe I can accomplish those things down the road.
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Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
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If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.
