Labrinth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
-
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
-
I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
-
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
-
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
-
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
-
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
-
Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
-
As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
-
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
-
I've always been a reader and a writer.
-
Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
-
My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'
-
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
-
Education is a vaccine for violence.
-
I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
-
Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!
-
You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.
-
I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
-
One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.
