Daniel Lanois Quotes

Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.

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• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Go For It

• Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Simple
  • Ending

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Children
  • Love
  • You

• They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • High
  • Me

• I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Things
  • Very
  • Involved

• I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Song
  • Action

• I was a class clown, but I'm not a bully.

  

  Kevin Dillon

• For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Small
  • Loss

• Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • People
  • Mind
  • Ignorance

• In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

  

  John Engler

• Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.

  

  Daniel Lanois
  • People
  • Design
  • Hell