Gerard Way Quotes

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

Gerard Way My Chemical Romance

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.

  

  Sam Kean
  • United States
  • Europe

• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Vice

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Water

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Good
  • Think
  • Future

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Edge

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Healthy
  • Clear
  • Inequality

• Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Society
  • Alone

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • You
  • Rhythm
  • Slump

• Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Prove

• If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• History is everything that has ever happened.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Happened

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• Sometimes after a gig one of the band would say 'Did you see that girl down the front?' and somebody would say 'Do you want me to get her back?' But, generally we met them at the hotel or backstage. For a girl to get backstage in the first place, she'd probably blown half the crew - and I'm not into sharing in that respect. We had one roadie who actually had a heart attack on tour with us in 1983 - he was a big, big guy and he was doing at least four or five groupies a day!

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Girl
  • Band
  • Backstage

• As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Different
  • Unknown
  • Exciting

• Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Band
  • Feel