Vanessa Amorosi Quotes
I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.
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I don't think I'd ever get typecast as a soldier.
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I want to express what's meaningful. I'm not into gimmicks. I want to make truthful music that's invigorating, maintains a cutting edge, takes on different shades.
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One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
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I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
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I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
