Robert Palmer Quotes

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Palmer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 19, 1949 - September 26, 2003

Topics

MusicAgeSoulParentsListening

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

Jessie J

LifePersonalitySleepAnimalNight

I'd like to meet a nice girl and leave all those 'hottest bachelor' lists behind.

Jesse Metcalfe

GirlNiceMeetBachelorLeaveLists

I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

Jens Lekman

ThinkPersonStealingDifferent

I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.

Melina Matsoukas

PassionI AmKnowAchievingProject

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

Amy Hempel

PeopleStoryFirstWhateverHappened

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.

Stanley Hauerwas

GodBelieveAmericanInterestingWhy

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

ChangeLiveResearchMindsetLearn

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

Mika

StyleResponsibilityUnderstandSonic

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Luke Ford

FireCollegeWrongTeachersSystem

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

Liu Wen

LoveHomeMusicRomanticSoulMe

I flew home to Pittsburgh, and my management called me to ask if I wanted to perform on 'Dancing With the Stars' with Charlie Puth. I'm like, 'What? I grew up watching the show!'

Daya

StarsHomeMeManagementWatching

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

Chris Tucker

DayPeopleGolfWeekYouDown

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