“I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 176 of 313
“I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.”
“Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.”
“I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension”
“The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.”
“Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.”
“Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.”
“Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?”
“...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?”
“Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.”
“I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.”
“I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.”
“I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.”
“Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.”
“Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.”
“Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.”
“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”
“It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.”
“Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.”
“Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.”