Ray LaMontagne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
-
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
-
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
-
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
-
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.
-
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
-
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
-
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
-
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
-
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
-
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
-
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
-
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
-
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
-
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
-
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
-
My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
-
I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
-
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
Charles B. Rangel -
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
-
I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.
-
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
-
Every song asks to be sung in a different way.
