Nik Kershaw (Nicholas David Kershaw) Quotes

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

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• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Right

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Song
  • Bed
  • Rocks

• We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Home
  • Song
  • Thought

• I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Build

• If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Now

• 'Wuthering Heights' was not your normal type song - but that's why it was so brilliant. It was something out the norm. When something like that comes along, they don’t come along that often. When does the next Kate Bush come along, after Kate Bush? There hasn’t been one.

  

  Elton John
  • Why
  • Song

• Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Good
  • Song
  • Party

• It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• The original title was 'Waking Up Diagonal'. It's the first line of the song. I just thought it was more interesting than 'I Don't Care', which is such a boring title to me. When I hear that song, it breaks my heart a little bit because it's my story.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Song

• I can't see myself ever having somebody say something about me on a song and me being like, 'All right, now I'm about to say something about them on a song.'

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Song

• I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Song

• I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Song

• I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Up
  • Song
  • Flying

• My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Song

• I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Love

• When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Book
  • Wish

• The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Age
  • Celebrity
  • Editors

• For instance, I have never believed that there is only one person for each person in the world. It doesn't make the least sense to me. However, in reality, I fell in love at 45 and I am absolutely certain that my now husband is the only man in the world for me, a truth I find both ridiculous and uplifting.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • World
  • Truth
  • Reality

• I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Chance
  • Conservative
  • Amelie

• I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

  

  Nik Kershaw
  • Song
  • Right
  • Tune