Stuart Adamson Quotes

I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?

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  Octavio Paz
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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Music
  • Interior

• I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Long
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• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Laws
  • Now And Then

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Look
  • Successful

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Past
  • Crazy
  • Planning

• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Curiosity

• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Desire
  • Cold

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Lost
  • Company

• I want to make this world perfect.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Want
  • Perfect

• Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Try
  • Champions

• I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Time
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Character
  • Death
  • Eyes

• When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • People
  • World
  • Song

• Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Write

• I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Song
  • Write
  • Choose