Nanna Øland Fabricius (Oh Land) Quotes

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Just
  • Musician
  • Producer

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Home
  • Empathy

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Style

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Music
  • Power

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Want
  • Me

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Good
  • Great
  • Earth

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Those who say that without the monarchy Britain would be a banana republic are closing their eyes to the banana republic features which the cult of monarchy necessitates. Dazzled by the show, moreover, they may be missing other long-run tendencies towards banana-dom which it is the partial function of monarchy to obscure.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Long
  • May
  • Eyes

• I have an old car that I've rebuilt myself - a 1973 Dodge Challenger - and I also have a 1967 Pontiac GTO.

  

  Jonathan LaPaglia
  • Car

• Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Great
  • Music
  • Family