Ben Kingsley Quotes

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

Ben Kingsley

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Ready

• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • Music
  • Day

• I love to play music.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Love
  • Play

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• 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.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Family
  • House
  • Dog

• 'Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Red

• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Friendship
  • Circles
  • Routine

• It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • People
  • Friends
  • Gun

• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Music