Elena Ferrante Quotes

She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair.

Elena Ferrante

• Bands
• Skinny
• Temples
• Wildness

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• I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Bands
  • Split Up

• Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

  

  Rick Astley
  • School
  • Days
  • Bands

• I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

  

  April Winchell
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Bands

• The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Job
  • War
  • Boy

• I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Life
  • Decided
  • Skinny

• Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Loses
  • Hinduism
  • Temples

• It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Temples
  • Purify
  • Worshippers

• We traveled with a lot of these bands and got to know them personally. It's a real good comradery between musicians…traveling together, you can relate to each other.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Musicians
  • Bands
  • Traveled

• You want a showman, go see rock n roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll
  • Showman

• There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Information
  • Events
  • Bands

• I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Business
  • Trust
  • London

• I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Bands
  • Grew Up

• People who were in their 20s back in the '80s have told us that we remind them of their favorite bands from when they were younger, ... I understand them. When I was a kid I loved those bands, too. We have that in common with the people who come out and see us.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Bands
  • Remind

• It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • American
  • Failure
  • Bands

• Many bands that I like that have longevity on their side with consistent members are even splits. It makes a big difference to have the other two guys involved every step of the way. It keeps the thing moving. Everyone is taken with equal degree of seriousness. It's not just because it's a four-way partnership. It also relates to taking things maturely and taking other people's thoughts into consideration.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Difference
  • Equal
  • Bands

• The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • True
  • Bands
  • Fads

• I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • I Love
  • Bands
  • The Beatles

• Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Bands
  • Aerosmith
  • Real Rock

• I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • People
  • Music
  • I Love

• Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.

  

  Brian DeGraw
  • Bands
  • Musical influences

• I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • Years
  • Old

• She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Bands
  • Skinny
  • Temples