Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

Bill Clinton

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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

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

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dad

• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Growing
  • Best
  • Child

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Process

• You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Design

• When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Child
  • Animal
  • Circus

• The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Shadow

• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Great
  • Music
  • May

• There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Technology has given us convenience, but at the same time it's making musicians work harder in that if you really want to make money making music and selling albums, you have to go out there and perform. And hope you sell stuff like merch, and get on YouTube, and all the other ancillary sort of things that go along with that.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Good
  • Music
  • Friends

• As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

  

  Joe Abercrombie
  • Advice

• The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Knows
  • Easier

• I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Music
  • Child
  • President