Amos Lee Quotes

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

Amos Lee

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Biblical
  • Context
  • Prophet

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Political
  • Expressing
  • Darling

• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Vice

• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Day

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Just
  • Head

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Boundaries

• Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• This country is pretty amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

  

  James Lovegrove

• Mentors are like friendships.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Friendships

• I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

  

  Jeff Healey
  • Music
  • Different
  • Player

• Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Music