Jim Kerr Quotes

We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.

Jim Kerr Simple Minds

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• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• 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 will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Court

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Try

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Songs
  • Name
  • Tend

• Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Chance
  • Trump
  • Successful

• The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Chance

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Worth
  • Heartbreak

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Control
  • Songs
  • Happens

• Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

  

  Bob Sundvold
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Basketball

• People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • People
  • Why
  • Kindness

• Bernard Leach was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Beautiful
  • Wish
  • Incredibles

• We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.

  

  Jim Kerr Simple Minds
  • Chance
  • Songs
  • Enjoyed