Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
-
When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
-
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
-
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
-
Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
-
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
-
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
-
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
-
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
-
I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
-
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
-
I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
-
Endangered species are our friends.
-
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
-
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
-
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
-
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
-
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
-
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
-
I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
-
And if it feels good... Feel it!
-
There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
