Brian Setzer Quotes
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
Quotes to Explore
-
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
-
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
-
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
-
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
-
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
-
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
-
I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
-
I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
-
I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
-
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
-
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
-
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
-
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
-
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
-
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
-
I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
-
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
-
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
-
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
-
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
-
All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
-
In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.
-
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
-
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
