Ray LaMontagne Quotes

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

Ray LaMontagne

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• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Team
  • Best

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Justice
  • Independent
  • German

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Politics

• It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

  

  Ed Helms
  • World
  • Real
  • Character

• Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • American
  • History
  • Law

• Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Job

• When you grow up, you think everything you own is going to be designer. Not true. Most of the stuff I own is high-street. I love mixing it up; it's so beautifully made nowadays, and the quality is of such a high standard, and let's be honest: everybody loves a bargain.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • True
  • High

• My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.

  

  Jason Wu

• There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Black
  • Fall

• This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People

• I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

  

  David Friedman

• I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Dream
  • Song

• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Song
  • Morning
  • Write

• It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
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