Chuck Brodsky Quotes
'Cause we are each other's angels. And we meet when it is time. We keep each other going. And we show each other signs.
Quotes to Explore
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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I care deeply about the direction of our country.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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You're the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever. When I let go of those ideas it was easier to see my childhood from different points of view.
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Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
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'Cause we are each other's angels. And we meet when it is time. We keep each other going. And we show each other signs.
