Stephen Morris Quotes

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Goal
  • Acting

• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Democratic
  • Revelations
  • Societies

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Should
  • Sexiness

• What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Environmental

• I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Service
  • Sacrifice

• I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Done
  • You
  • Me

• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Training
  • Week
  • Gym

• Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Together
  • More
  • Ever

• As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Child

• Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Words
  • Me
  • English

• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I loved all sports, and New York's a pretty good sports town, and the Giants - I don't know why we chose the Giants over the Jets, but we chose the Giants.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

  

  Phillip Adams
  • Men
  • Together

• This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Law
  • Unique

• Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Culture

• I'm trying to bring back 'Top of the Pops.' I don't know why us artists haven't just stood there and said, 'Let's back a campaign and bring it back,' because it would be the most amazing thing ever. 'X Factor' has got the Sunday show, and except for 'Later with Jools Holland,' which is a massive success, there isn't one music show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why

• Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Emotional

• Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • Work
  • Men
  • inspirational

• Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

  

  Stephen Morris New Order
  • Music
  • Wallpaper
  • Personal Thing