Nick Valensi Quotes

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

Nick Valensi The Strokes

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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Romantic
  • New
  • New York

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Music
  • Think
  • Made

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Seeing

• There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Words

• I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Music
  • Important
  • School

• I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Music
  • Art
  • Stop

• As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

  

  Kabir
  • Music
  • Long
  • Mind

• Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Up
  • Creativity

• I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • People
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

  

  Nick Valensi The Strokes
  • Music
  • Idea
  • New