Michelle Shocked Quotes

Make your own music. It can be done.

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• I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Never
  • Educated

• The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Done
  • Fashion

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Done
  • Rock
  • Couple

• That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and endless rewriting. I woke up one day (more than 2 years ago) with that odd thing virtually complete in my head. It took only a few hours to get down, and then copy out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. 'They'll always pass muster,' Miss Dunstable had replied, 'when they are done up with bank notes.'

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
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  • Fashion

• If you really don’t enjoy the type of music I make and that’s not you, OK. But don’t say I’m not talented. If you haven’t noticed, I wasn’t made - I was found.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Music

• Musicians are hungry for new music.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music

• I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

  

  David Amram
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

  

  Douglas Feith
  • Done

• All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Done
  • Technology

• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • World
  • Done

• I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Music
  • Legend

• I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Music

• NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Up
  • Done
  • Respect

• There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

  

  Joe Wright
  • Work
  • Music
  • Listening

• We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

  

  Chester Bennington Stone Temple Pilots
  • Music

• Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Done
  • Crazy
  • Island

• I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Peace
  • Justice

• Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Expect
  • Teams

• I'm very much interested in having people take herbs that make them feel good because if they do that, they'll have an experience, and they'll say, 'Oh, this is real.' This is something you take, and you don't have to go on faith, but you can feel the difference.

  

  Chris Kilham
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Make your own music. It can be done.

  

  Michelle Shocked
  • Music
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