Manika Quotes

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

Manika

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• Perform
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• A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Stage
  • Ready
  • Stage Fright

• It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stage
  • Comparison
  • Unfair

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • School
  • Rock
  • Doctor

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • God
  • American

• Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Right
  • Everything
  • Stage

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Story

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Stage
  • Off

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Weird

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Back

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Why
  • Game

• We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Rock

• On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.

  

  Benedict Samuel
  • People
  • Band
  • Rock

• Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Butterfly
  • Sight
  • Like Love

• Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novel

• I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

  

  Manika
  • Rock
  • Stage
  • Perform