Blake Shelton Quotes
I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.
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I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid to say they are feminists.
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Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
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I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
