John Tilbury Quotes

Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

John Tilbury AMM

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Control

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Decision

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Development

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Tradition
  • Stationary
  • Living Things

• I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Giving

• The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Rest

• Life is uncertain; death is certain.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Certain
  • Life is

• Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

  

  John Tilbury AMM
  • Giving
  • Humorous
  • Elegance