Georges Simenon Quotes

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Georges Simenon

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Terrible
  • Suspense

• I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Mysterious

• Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • May

• Heaven bent to take my handAnd lead me through the fire.Be the long awaited answerTo a long and painful fight.Truth be told I've tried my best,But somewhere along the wayI got caught up in all there was to offer,And the cost was so much more than I could bear.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Truth

• Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Band

• I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Business
  • Mom
  • Ballet

• I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

  

  Lily James
  • Work
  • Game
  • Interesting

• I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.

  

  Alain Ducasse

• I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Work
  • Father

• Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • World

• You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • People

• If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Years

• I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.

  

  China Machado
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

  

  Georges Simenon
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Vocation