Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes

I feel the most centered in my life when I’m performing a song.

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• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • More
  • Performing

• If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Song
  • Me
  • Modern

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• 'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Done
  • Success

• I've been writing since I came to Nashville when I was 17. I've been blessed to have written with so many of the biggest names around. They took me under their wing and taught me the ways of writing. They saw something special in me, which feels great. Every song on my record is going to be original, and that's just a really cool feeling.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Song

• If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Now

• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Song
  • Silly

• You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It's like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you're going to get a little tired of it.

  

  Les Claypool
  • May
  • Song
  • Single

• I remember I was at a press conference where somebody came up to me with absolute confidence, like he knew me forever, and whispered in my ear, 'You should sing a song now. The Indian audience will enjoy it. Your songs will improve India and Pakistan's relations.' I clarified to him that I wasn't Ali Zafar.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Song

• You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Time
  • Song

• It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Good
  • Song
  • Control

• I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

  

  Clara Ann Fowler
  • Song
  • Joy

• One day, I'm gonna make a song with John Mayer.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Song

• I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Song
  • Interesting

• You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Song

• Let me tell you 'bout a place a omewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay, twistin' the night away...Here they have a lot of fun, puttin' trouble on the run. Man, you find the old and young, twistin' the night away. They're twistin', twistin' everybody's feelin' great. They're twistin', twistin', they're twistin' the night away.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Place

• Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Artist
  • President
  • Intellectual

• On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement - just netting everything down, which means that everything has been turned into fungible numbers.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Doing
  • Down
  • Numbers

• Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Conservative
  • Progressive
  • Islamist

• I feel the most centered in my life when I’m performing a song.

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Song
  • Performing
  • Centered