TONY Wilson Musician Quotes
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
-
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
-
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
-
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
-
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
-
Prayer is man's greatest power!
-
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
-
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
-
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
-
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
-
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
-
I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
-
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
-
Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
-
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
-
I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
-
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
-
I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.
-
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.
-
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
-
Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.
-
One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.
-
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
