Mike Posner Quotes

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

Mike Posner

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• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Weird

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Disagreeable

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Single
  • Weekend
  • Skills

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Music
  • Home

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Want
  • Game
  • Challenge

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • People
  • Kids
  • Want

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Need

• If you do something, expect consequences.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Expect
  • Consequences

• 'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Done

• Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

  

  John Robert Seeley
  • Life
  • May
  • Beautiful

• One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Real
  • Art
  • Free

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.

  

  Barbara Mattes Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Dreams
  • Sky

• It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Money
  • Art
  • Job