Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Water
  • Winter

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Want

• With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Up
  • World
  • Progress

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • World

• The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Man

• Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Music
  • Writing
  • She

• It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• For Elektra, I just wanted to be very clear. She's traveled the world. She didn't go to boarding school, but that's the type of girl that she'd be. So, I just wanted to make sure that I could bring that to her, which goes through the language.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • World
  • School
  • She

• A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • World
  • Style
  • Confession

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Culture
  • Serious
  • Missing

• There are so many bands I am starting to see: Waterparks, Potty Mouth - they're all garage bands that started in the garage. Kids are loving them.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Kids
  • Bands
  • Garage

• There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

  

  Devendra Banhart
  • World
  • Music
  • Mystery