Colin Meloy Quotes

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

Colin Meloy

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Car
  • Sports
  • Sexy

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Animal
  • Reflect

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • End
  • Without

• I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dream
  • Hate
  • Movies

• Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • Patriotic

• The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages - it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments - or 'Moses' talking points' - but hasten to add that they're not exactly 'carved in stone.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Girl
  • Religious
  • Gay

• In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman

• When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People

• All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Work
  • Live

• I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Together
  • Space

• Wherever there is Cuban music there will be the aura of the Buena Vista Social Club, for whom the farewell tour is also the end of an era. It’s something that makes you sad, to a certain point, for those of us who have seen this project grow.

  

  Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos Buena Vista Social Club
  • Music
  • ERA
  • Cuban

• In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Music
  • Song
  • Listening

• I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Music
  • Song
  • Sentiment