Erol Alkan Quotes
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
-
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
-
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
-
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
-
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
-
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
-
I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
-
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
-
We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
-
I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
-
Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
-
While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
-
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
-
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
-
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
-
I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.
-
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
-
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
-
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
-
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
-
Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
-
My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
-
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
