Michelle Branch Quotes

I put myself into character for my songs.

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Present

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • First
  • Root
  • Then

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Door
  • See
  • Key

• One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Best
  • Always
  • Choose

• Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Universe
  • Rich
  • Window

• I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Spotlight

• First I will make different color tests: I will study the dark – deep blue, deep violet, deep dirty green, etc. Often I see the colors before my eyes. Sometimes I imitate with my lips the deep sounds of the trumpet – then I see various deep mixtures which the word is uncapable od conceiving and which the palette can only feebly reproduce.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Dark

• Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Women
  • Black
  • Perfect

• Ch. 2 Relativity

  

  Arthur Eddington

• Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey.Little bit crazy like New Orleans.Memphis blue and Daytona sunny.Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans.Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Girl
  • Crazy

• I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Funny

• I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

  

  Benicio Del Toro

• If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heaven

• I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Song

• There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Character
  • Job
  • High

• I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Song
  • Die

• I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Wonderful

• I put myself into character for my songs.

  

  Michelle Branch
  • Character
  • Song