Mickey Gilley Quotes

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

Mickey Gilley

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• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Stress
  • Appearance
  • Too Much

• My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • First
  • Show
  • Appearance

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Really
  • Records

• The reason I sell 6 million records, the reason I could go to jail and come out without a scratch, the reason I can walk around, the reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly in to my face and find my soul, it's there, it's not sold, i didn't sell it, it's still within me, I still feel it, my heart is still connected to my body.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Look

• The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Records
  • Discover

• When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Wanting

• Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Important
  • Party
  • Popular

• Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Guitar
  • Records
  • Box

• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Done
  • Feels
  • Made

• Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Words
  • Appearance
  • Reveal

• Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Appearance
  • Manners

• Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Appearance

• There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Reality

• Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Rude

• If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

  

  Edward Gardner
  • Support
  • Problem

• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Reality
  • Curiosity

• A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Records
  • Appearance
  • Vehicle