Eyedea (Micheal David Larsen) Quotes

I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion.

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• When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Same

• Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Always

• It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Defend
  • Self-Interest

• I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Love
  • Like
  • Coats

• If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lonely

• Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

  

  James Bobin
  • Culture

• I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Character
  • Amazing

• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Work
  • Joy

• Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

  

  David Wilkerson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Today

• I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Up
  • School
  • Mother

• Beautiful has never been my goal.

  

  Pink
  • Beautiful

• You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Work

• To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.

  

  Chester Bowles
  • May
  • Help
  • Science

• I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Music

• Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

  

  Little Richard
  • Time
  • God
  • Elvis

• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Men
  • Power
  • Simple

• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • New
  • New York

• Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cat

• He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Country
  • Religion
  • Lion

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Wanted

• I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion.

  

  Eyedea
  • Cat
  • Learned
  • Lion