Andris Nelsons Quotes
It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
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'.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
-
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
-
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
-
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
-
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
-
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
-
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
-
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
-
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
-
My music is a luxury.
-
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
-
And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
-
My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.
-
I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
-
If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.
-
It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.
