Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.

Tom DeLonge Blink-182

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

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

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

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

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Age
  • Think

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dance

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Past
  • Memories

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Play
  • Dance

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Music
  • Movie

• It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.

  

  Francois Nars

• We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

  

  LeVar Burton

• I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up
  • Good
  • Courage

• Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Make