Lesley Garrett Quotes

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

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• And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Home
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Song
  • Single
  • Kid

• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Guitar

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • High
  • You
  • Single

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

  

  Vanity
  • Music
  • Old
  • Vanity

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

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

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J. Lo talking about some music that we're gonna put together, and we were talking about great directors. She said she really, really liked that video and was wondering who directed it, so yeah, I looked it up!

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

  

  Cliff Richard
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Life
  • Cowboy

• For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Different
  • Live
  • Space

• Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Rules
  • Congress

• I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Music
  • Single