- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play, when you perform, it might be for the last time, so you got to do it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'
- Instrument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It's a way for me to get things out that I can't get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can go a lot of places or make a lot of money, but there's nothing quite like having a job where people actually say to you, 'Thanks for making my life better.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020