Isaac Hayes Quotes

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

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• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Country
  • Much

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

  

  Ted Lange
  • You
  • Film
  • Difference

• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Go

• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Age
  • Think

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • You
  • Wish
  • Forget

• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • You
  • Push
  • Nurturing

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Passion

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • You
  • Energy
  • Rest

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Fly

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

• I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Deep
  • Language

• In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Football
  • Opportunities

• The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

  

  Lisa Gansky

• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Kid

• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • You
  • Influence