Ben Lovett Quotes

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons

• Music

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Country
  • Ignore

• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.

  

  Sam Kean
  • United States
  • Europe

• With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Business
  • Beautiful
  • Learn

• I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Lost

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

  Vance Joy
  • People
  • Book
  • Road

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Night

• 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

• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Live
  • Amazing
  • Weather

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

  

  Bernard Goldberg

• It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Brain

• Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Cleveland Browns stuck their neck out and risked taking me and put their faith and belief in me, and I won't let them down.

  

  Josh Gordon
  • Faith
  • Kid
  • Background

• As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Music