Alexandra Patsavas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
-
'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
-
Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
-
I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
-
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
-
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
-
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
-
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
-
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
-
I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
-
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
-
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
-
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
-
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
-
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
-
I do not subscribe to the 'Trump is crazy like a fox' thing. I think that's being too generous.
-
When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
-
There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
-
My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it back then. They were friends with Roy Acuff and the Delmore Brothers and the Carter Family. And all of my brothers and sisters who were older than me started on the show, after they were big enough to hold a guitar and sing.
-
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
-
I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.
-
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
-
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
