Jill Scott Quotes
That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.Jill Scott
Quotes to Explore
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
Karolina Kurkova -
If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
Gary Speed -
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Xavier Rudd -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
Rachel Nichols
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
Nathan Myhrvold -
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
Gary Clark Jr. -
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
Oscar Isaac -
I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
Becky G
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
Halsey -
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
M. Ward -
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
Nas
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Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly miss people and enjoying a good laugh with my peers.
Yaya Toure -
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler -
In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.
Megan Fox -
I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
Kanye West -
That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.
Jill Scott