Terrace Martin (Terrace Jamahl Martin) Quotes

I don’t put myself on a pedestal, I put the artist on the pedestal. I’m servicing the artist. I want to give you an experience. I want you to walk around and say “I feel happy doing art for a living.” No matter what the ups and down, my job is to make the artists be the best they want to be.

Terrace Martin

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• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Force
  • Democratic
  • Ideal

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Blow

• I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Language
  • Performance

• Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Path
  • Start

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Help
  • Relationship

• If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Trying

• The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • People
  • Hate

• And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • People
  • Learning
  • Selfish

• Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

  

  Mark Poster
  • People
  • Experience
  • Society

• I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

  

  Sia LSD

• My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Sex

• From my experience dealing with Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake I started to understand very clearly the character of local government. They will do anything. You will never really wrongly accuse them of anything because they do everything.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Character
  • Experience

• I don’t put myself on a pedestal, I put the artist on the pedestal. I’m servicing the artist. I want to give you an experience. I want you to walk around and say “I feel happy doing art for a living.” No matter what the ups and down, my job is to make the artists be the best they want to be.

  

  Terrace Martin
  • Experience
  • Artist
  • Pedestal