Alisa Xayalith Quotes

The merit of the music should be based on music, not the way people look.

Alisa Xayalith

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• I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Look
  • Rap

• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Never

• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Best
  • Look
  • Begin

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Today
  • Internet

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Music
  • Live
  • Heart

• To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Me
  • Finding

• I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Career
  • Look
  • Talking

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • She
  • Week

• I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Fun

• But, ultimately, I don't have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful. I hate all those records in the Top 40 - Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston. I think they're vile in the extreme. In essence this music doesn't say anything whatsoever.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Music
  • Black
  • Hate

• Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Music
  • Different

• That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.

  

  Davey Havok Blaqk Audio
  • Up
  • Music

• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Inspired

• I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.

  

  Matt Kuchar

• The merit of the music should be based on music, not the way people look.

  

  Alisa Xayalith
  • Music
  • Look
  • Merit