Taylor Momsen Quotes
The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
Quotes to Explore
-
When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
-
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
-
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
-
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
-
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
-
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
-
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
-
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
-
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
-
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
-
There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
-
I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
-
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
-
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
-
If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
-
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
-
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
-
Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
-
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
-
The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
