All Quotes

A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.
‐‐ David Lynch

A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.
‐‐ Michael Azerrad

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
‐‐ Steve Albini

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
‐‐ Chico Hamilton

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.
‐‐ Brian McKnight

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.
‐‐ Alison Elliott

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes.
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon

A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
‐‐ Michael Caine

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
‐‐ Jeff Dunham

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.
‐‐ Mike Weir

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
‐‐ Richard Russo

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
‐‐ Rachel Stevens

A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm.
‐‐ Jason Clarke

A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.
‐‐ Jenna Bush

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
‐‐ Lars Peter Hansen

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in 'The Big Bang Theory,' for instance, are studs.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
‐‐ Rupert Holmes

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
‐‐ Adam Levine

A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

A lot of my fans are people who have grown up and don't have as much time to listen to the radio, but still want to keep up with what's popular. A lot of shows don't talk to them anymore, but I do.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

A lot of my fans know that I love candy. I eat candy all day.
‐‐ Tyga

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.
‐‐ Theophilus London

A lot of my favorite movies come from nuggets of truth.
‐‐ Reid Carolin

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
‐‐ Gale Anne Hurd

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
‐‐ Randy Harrison

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam

A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.
‐‐ Sasha Roiz

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.
‐‐ Gina Gershon

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.
‐‐ Lily Collins

A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.
‐‐ Kevin Durand

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.
‐‐ Theophilus London

A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
‐‐ Zara Larsson

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.
‐‐ Erich Bergen

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
‐‐ Dev Hynes