Daniel Rossen Quotes

I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

Daniel Rossen

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• A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Family
  • Why
  • Kids

• I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

  

  Babette March
  • Up
  • Live
  • Taken

• Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Solitude

• I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Important

• My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Night
  • Sweet
  • Grandmother

• I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Small

• After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Tired

• I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

  

  Douglas Feith
  • World
  • Done
  • War

• I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Writing

• Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Girl
  • Mom
  • Door

• I was a pain most of my childhood, always mad at the things I didn't have. Things shifted drastically in my 20s when I started putting an emphasis on gratitude. Focus on the good you do have, not the things you lack.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Focus

• We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Long
  • Women

• I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Hate
  • Sweet
  • Candy

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.

  

  David Milch
  • Trying
  • Humility

• The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Trying
  • Future
  • Success

• There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

  

  Daniel Rossen
  • Trying
  • Natural
  • Strange