Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. I was just so in love with music. I would just go hang out with them, and I would try to sing and harmonize with them. I didn't even know the songs.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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We’re living in the age of discovery. I think it is almost more exciting to release music with newer artists.
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Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
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The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
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I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. I was just so in love with music. I would just go hang out with them, and I would try to sing and harmonize with them. I didn't even know the songs.
