- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience Quotes
What years and habits teach you.
This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.
- Civil Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020