Andrew Garfield Quotes

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

Andrew Garfield

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• In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Something

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.

  

  Maluma
  • Experience
  • Amazing
  • Artist

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Never
  • Celebration
  • Pure

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I would always want printed books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Want
  • Always
  • Books

• I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Die
  • See
  • Paris

• I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Evil

• Well let me tell you something, I can't be nobody but myself. Ya know what I'm saying? The thing that makes the world love Flav is Flav being himself. So honestly man, to tell you the truth: it was not hard to be myself. It was real easy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • World
  • Real
  • Truth

• I think a label like 'avant-garde' defeats itself. You learn to have avant-garde exhibitions. The very fact that avant-garde can have an exhibition defeats the purpose of avant-garde, because it's already formalised and ritualised.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Purpose

• If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

  

  Brea Grant
  • Strong

• A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.

  

  Nate Oats
  • Good
  • Pressure
  • Expectation

• Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human being which is produced in accordance with all the rules of music; for we very much sooner weary of the latter, if it is repeated often and at length. Here, however, we probably confuse our participation in the mirth of a little creature that we love, with the beauty of its song; for if this were exactly imitated by man (as sometimes the notes of the nightingale are) it would seem to our ear quite devoid of taste.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Human being
  • Song Of Birds
  • Musical Rule

• Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • School
  • Passion
  • Child

• The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

  

  Brassaï
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Surrealism

• It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

  

  Christopher Dodd
  • Food

• We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

  

  Andrew Garfield