Alex Cox Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
-
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
-
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
-
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
-
I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
-
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
-
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
-
I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
-
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
-
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
-
I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
-
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
-
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
-
I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
-
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
-
Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
-
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
-
It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
-
I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
-
Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
-
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
-
One of my closest friends was killed. I had to wake up and follow the help of family and friends, in order to change my ways. Now, I'm against violence and drug abuse.
-
You can't change the system through violence.
