Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

What motivates us is always new music.

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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• We always make music and continue to make hits.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Always
  • Continue

• I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Musicians

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Smell
  • Invisible

• The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • English

• We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

  

  Iman
  • Friends
  • New
  • Loved

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Man
  • Missing

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Music
  • Job
  • Evil

• VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.

  

  Debbi Peterson
  • Bad

• So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Life
  • Job
  • Guy

• You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Different
  • Song

• What motivates us is always new music.

  

  Nuno Bettencourt
  • Music
  • New
  • Motivates