Brooke Fraser (Brooke Gabrielle Ligertwood) Quotes
The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!
Quotes to Explore
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.
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Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!
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When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
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She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.
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All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
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I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.
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The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!
