Justin Timberlake Quotes
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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I love putting people to work of color.
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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
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The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
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What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello, and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments.
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Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
