Róisín Murphy Quotes

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

Róisín Murphy

• Music
• Believe
• Humanity
• Sound
• Optimistic
• Nostalgia
• Pretentious
• Modernist
• Overpowered

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • History
  • Dream
  • Child

• And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Past
  • Gods

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Doubt
  • Smoking
  • Statistics

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Encouraging
  • China

• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • True
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Love
  • Magic
  • Ventriloquism

• There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • World
  • God

• You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Love Is

• There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Country
  • Girl

• In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Experience
  • Process
  • System

• I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

  

  Venus Williams
  • May
  • Think
  • Easy

• Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I love, when I feel challenged, to step up to my highest capacity.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Up

• I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Truth
  • Lyrics
  • Honesty

• It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

  

  Róisín Murphy
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Humanity