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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music 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.
-
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
-
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.'
-
I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's 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.
-
It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
-
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.
-
Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
-
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 like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
-
I love to play music.
-
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
-
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
-
I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.
-
Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.
-
I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
-
Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.
-
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.
