Florence Welch Quotes

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

Florence Welch Florence and the Machine

• Music
• Soul
• Listening

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Serious

• Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Why
  • Fall
  • Stand

• I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • School
  • Myself

• But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Real
  • War
  • Taken

• We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • World
  • Live
  • Fix

• When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Power
  • Back
  • Georgia

• We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • See

• Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Women
  • History

• I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • She

• The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Fields

• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Sad

• The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.

  

  Willy Mason
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Living
  • Background

• I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Listening