Sean Parker Quotes

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

Sean Parker

• Way
• Artist
• Contracts
• Streaming

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Home
  • Just Because

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Goal
  • Win

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

  

  Maimonides
  • Poverty
  • Charity
  • Anticipate

• The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Search
  • Despair

• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Death
  • Man
  • Trouble

• I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Brain

• Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Attention
  • Decisions

• The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Live
  • Me

• Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Free
  • Culture

• I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Remember
  • Temple
  • Deori Maa

• We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Gift
  • Precious

• In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Influence
  • Life's Purpose

• Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • True
  • Way
  • Drawing

• There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Way
  • Artist
  • Contracts