John Gourley Quotes
As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
Randy Houser
The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
Rachel Nichols
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
G-Eazy
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
Laura Benanti
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
Ed Sheeran
I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
Kate Hudson
Where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
Ezra Pound
I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.
John Noble
It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.
George Muller
As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
