Richard Thompson Quotes

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

Richard Thompson

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• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

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

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
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• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Love
  • Soul

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
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• I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Women
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• Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
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• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  

  Carlo Wolff
  • Music
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• People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Music
  • Love
  • Performances

• We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Something