Michael Kiwanuka Quotes
Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up my horizons for what songwriting was and what singers I could listen to.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
-
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
-
What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
-
Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
-
Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
-
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
-
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
-
We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work.
-
Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
-
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
-
Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
-
Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
-
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
-
I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
-
Pártase de cualquier punto. Todos son iguales. Todos llevan a un punto de partida.
-
That's the wonderful thing about picking and choosing who we want to work with, because I've been in situations where I've worked with someone, and they thought they were gonna be on the cover of 'XXL' in two months. I'm like, 'That's not how it works.'
-
I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.
-
There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
-
You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
-
I don't focus outside of myself to my guides. I always focus inside.
-
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
-
Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up my horizons for what songwriting was and what singers I could listen to.
