Chris Young Quotes
When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!'
Quotes to Explore
-
The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
-
Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
-
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
-
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
-
It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
-
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
-
I think women love to read love stories.
-
I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
-
I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
-
Genius: the superhuman in man.
-
Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
-
There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete - we were invited into beautiful homes, enjoyed stunning sponsor cars, got special treatment at restaurants, and attended many exquisite functions.
-
The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
-
Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
-
I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.
-
It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.
-
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
-
My heart is torn with the sound of raucous voices,They shout from the slums, from the streets, from the crowded places,And tunes from the hurdy-gurdy that coldly rejoicesShoot arrows into my heart.
-
To be hungry must be awful.
-
Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.
-
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
-
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
-
Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.
-
When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!'
