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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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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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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The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march
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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
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I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.
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I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other talented, creative people that I've been around. It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!'
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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.
