Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes

I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

Leon Bridges

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• To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

  

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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

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

  

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• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

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• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

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• My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.

  

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• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

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• It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

  

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• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

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• A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

  

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• I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

  

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• There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.

  

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• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

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• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  

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• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

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• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

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• If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.

  

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• In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.

  

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• Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

  

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• One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
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• I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

  

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• I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe