Kele Okereke (Kele) Quotes
I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.
Kele Okereke
Bloc Party
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
Barbara Mandrell
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
Ramana Maharshi
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
Tadashi Yanai
I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
Wayne Dyer
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
Gavin DeGraw
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
L.A. Reid
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
Olivia Wilde
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
R. L. Stine
I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
Wagner Moura
People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
Eddie Trunk
Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.
Ice T
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
Hans Hofmann
I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
Ian Mckellen
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
Allen West
I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.
Kele Okereke
Bloc Party
