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Jens Lekman Quotes

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

Jens Lekman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: swedish
Birth: February 6, 1981

Topics

Love Grateful People Small Texas Up

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Respect Start Think You Look More

When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.

Jesse Ball

Father Mother Great Childhood Child

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Mel Smith

Good Business Start End Comedy You

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

History Memory Remember You Dream

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

Mike Gordon

Best Think Talk Dead Band Explore

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

Evil Construction New Spirit More

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

Jonathan Dee

Better Getting Better Feel Learn

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

Diane Kruger

Better Helpful Who Than Very Were

Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.

Brett Young

Music Writing Start You Kind Way

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Boz Scaggs

Myself I Am Place Jazz Singer Even

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

ASAP Ferg

Me Small Seriously Never Always Get

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Alfredo Stroessner

Confident Never Always Knew Expected