Mick Jagger Quotes
Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
-
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
-
Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
-
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
-
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
-
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
-
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
-
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
-
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
-
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
-
The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
-
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
-
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
-
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
-
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
-
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
-
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
-
The Olympics is a daunting thing. We have to face the fact that (by doing it this way) we'll cut our players short a little bit.
-
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.
-
Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
