Ella Mai Quotes

My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

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• I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

  

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
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• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• 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.

  

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• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.

  

  Sam Keen
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• When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.

  

  Bernie Siegel
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• I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
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• I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Time
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• I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!

  

  Janel Parrish
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• My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Inspiration