Nils Frahm Quotes

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

Nils Frahm

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• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Government
  • Status Quo

• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • History
  • True

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Life
  • True
  • Parents

• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growing
  • Opportunities

• To change what you get, you must change who you are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • You
  • Change
  • Must

• The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Money
  • Love
  • Power

• I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • Time
  • Positive

• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Traveling

• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Character
  • Death
  • Blow

• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • People
  • Idea
  • Japan

• I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • World
  • Normal
  • Knitters

• I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Career
  • Films
  • Period Movies

• The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

  

  Nils Frahm
  • Love
  • Career
  • Instrument