Satyajit Ray Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
-
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
-
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
-
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
-
If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
-
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
-
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
-
I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
-
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
-
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
-
The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
-
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
-
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
-
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
-
As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
-
The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
-
When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
-
I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
-
I've always had very catholic tastes.
-
I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.
-
The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.
-
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.
-
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
