Billy Joel Quotes
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.Billy Joel
Quotes to Explore
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
D. B. Sweeney -
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort -
I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
Landon Liboiron -
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
Dan Hill -
Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
Edgardo Osorio -
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha -
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. Harvey -
I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
Obie Trice -
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
Sam Raimi
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons -
I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.
Uzo Aduba -
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
Yuna -
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
W. H. Auden -
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh -
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Van Morrison
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
Youssou N'Dour -
When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.
Lori Loughlin -
Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.
Debbie Ford -
I played and recorded this song using my fingers instead of a pick. In the verses I'm basically playing a guitar chord and plucking the strings with my thumb, pointer and middle fingers.
Paul Thomas Good Charlotte -
Darius Rucker is straight up the most charming, handsome man you have ever met in your entire life.
Jessica St. Clair -
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
Billy Joel