David Torn Quotes

I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

David Torn

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Love
  • Soul

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Sea

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Myself

• Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Shine

• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
  • Me

• It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Experience
  • Funny
  • Changing

• Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Family
  • Why
  • Funny

• If people hate you, then you're probably doing something right

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • People
  • Hate

• On my Youtube page there are so many haters. They just say crazy stuff. Like, I'm not mad. I'm 16 years old and I don't have chest hair and I'm not angry about it at the moment. That will come. People are like, 'Look at him he puts helium in his voice before he sings.' You just have to laugh at yourself. It's funny.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • People
  • Funny
  • Crazy

• Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

  

  Amy Chua
  • May
  • Kids
  • America

• When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Son

• Don’t be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Honesty
  • Inspire
  • Be Afraid

• I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Denial

• I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

  

  David Torn
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Hate