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

• 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

• 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 don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Morning

• 'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Real
  • Song
  • Star

• I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song

• Impersonating Celine) 'Zis next song iz for all ze parents in zer audience, and also zer children'...(looks puzzled).... that's just everybody, right?

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Children
  • Song
  • Parents

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • People
  • Culture
  • Energy

• Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Prayer
  • Share
  • Praying

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

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Song
  • Performing
  • Centered