Winston Marshall Quotes

Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

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• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Want
  • Doing
  • New York

• I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Writing
  • She

• If you want to evolve and reinvent yourself, you will need to observe people and explore a lot.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • People
  • Need
  • Explore

• You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Average

• And even within cities you have different dynamics in each asset class.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Cities
  • Dynamics
  • Asset Class

• You're the best athlete I've seen in high school.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • School
  • High
  • Athlete

• Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

  

  Diogenes
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy
  • Teach

• There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Water
  • Deeds
  • Touching

• When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • Band
  • Lose
  • Get Away

• I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

  

  Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages
  • Working
  • Game music

• That enforced time when you have to switch off, that you're on a plane, is so unusual these days. It's just that thing of not being able to interact with other people through e-mails or social media or whatever. It's crazy how you even notice that you're not able to do that. I find that the kind of traveling - long days, particularly if you go somewhere to do a show, and then traveling again the next day - a lot of people would find pretty challenging, but I find it energizing in a weird way.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Social Media
  • Challenging
  • Traveling

• Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Bar
  • Ruining

• The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Drummer
  • Guitars
  • Electric Guitar

• Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Forever
  • Frustration
  • Instruments

• I do guest vocals all the time.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Time
  • Guest
  • Vocals

• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Listening

• Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Instruments
  • Guitars