Phil Everly Quotes

If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

Phil Everly The Everly Brothers

• Singing
• Harmony
• Concentration

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• Isolationism is over.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Over
  • Isolationism

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • People
  • Long
  • True

• The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Words
  • Inspired

• It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Black
  • Green
  • Holiday

• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
  • Taken

• Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Money
  • Love

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Television
  • Really
  • Radio

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Libertarian
  • Patriot

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• Human beings are religious animals.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Religious
  • Human
  • Animals

• If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Goal

• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
  • Same

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Funny

• I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Game

• I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

  

  Max Levchin
  • People
  • Trying

• 'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Money
  • Green
  • Taxes

• Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • People
  • Christ
  • Fruit

• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Self

• In a play, a man comes out and says something. Another man comes out and says something. And by the end of the night, we've learned something we didn't know, In a musical, there is singing and dancing for two hours, but you've got to know everything in 5 minutes. Do it in those 5 minutes or you'll lose them.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • Night
  • Singing

• If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

  

  Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Singing
  • Harmony
  • Concentration