John Oates Quotes

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

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• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Strange
  • Two

• Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Business
  • Start
  • Christmas

• No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Best
  • Value

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • First
  • Transition

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• All of my characters are less than perfect.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Characters
  • Less

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'

  

  Audrey Meadows
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Star

• Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

  

  Joe Mansueto

• He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

  

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