Vera Farmiga Quotes

Music is what our feelings sound like.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Walk

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• 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

• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Age
  • Think

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Music
  • Always
  • Star

• There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Austin

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• 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

• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• We always make music and continue to make hits.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Always
  • Continue

• There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Journey

• I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • Father
  • Proud

• Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • American
  • War
  • Political

• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound