Eloise Greenfield Quotes

I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Music
  • Forever

• Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Film

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Music
  • She
  • Smile

• Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Music
  • Done
  • Silence

• My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Different

• I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dream

• Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Great
  • Music
  • Small

• I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music

• I love finding talents to pair my music with such as Conrad on 'Firestone', Parson James with 'Stole the Show,' and Will Heard on 'Nothing Left.'

  

  Kygo
  • Music

• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Positive
  • Farming

• I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

  

  Robert Webb
  • Work
  • Dramatic
  • Taking

• I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Believe
  • Why
  • High

• I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.

  

  Eloise Greenfield
  • Music
  • Inside