Nancy Mitford Quotes

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Nancy Mitford

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• True Love
• Imagines
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• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Free
  • Never

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Music
  • Stressed

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• I love to play music.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Love
  • Play

• Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Present
  • Shopping

• The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • You
  • Influence

• I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Time
  • Stop

• A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Running
  • Shoes

• It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Music
  • True Love
  • Imagines