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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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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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I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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Having spent almost 25 years in different roles within Investor, I have truly enjoyed working with creating long-term value in our companies.
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I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and as honest as I can and I don't take it lightly.
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I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
