John Lennon Quotes

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Born
  • Treats
  • Virtuous

• Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Why
  • Today
  • Mainstream

• Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Real
  • Food
  • Health

• Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him

  

  David Pleat
  • Way

• I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Believe
  • Goal
  • Determine

• Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Learning
  • Revolution
  • Angry

• Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Record
  • Software
  • Microphone

• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

  

  George Eliot
  • God
  • Skill
  • VIolins

• The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Relax
  • Boundaries
  • Springs

• I'm a really good fine tuner.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Fine

• Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

  

  Eva Simons
  • Animal
  • Dancing
  • Hairspray

• Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Music
  • Business

• Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

  

  Walter Map
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Afterwards

• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Monk
  • Coltrane
  • Jelly

• There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate.

  

  Jeremy Davis Paramore
  • Success
  • Passionate
  • Music Business

• I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music Business
  • Monk
  • Andy Warhol