Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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PeopleFeelMusiciansDifferences

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

John C. Reilly

FamilyFunPeopleThinkMoreThan

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

Jenny Lewis

FunnyMindSongStartThroughUp

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.

Stephen Kinzer

WorkPowerGreatLightDayLaw

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

Sting

RepublicanIntellectually

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

FatherSongOldFirstYearsOut

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Robert Frost

FenceYouDownKnowWhyUp

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Roland Emmerich

WorstKnowsEverybodyNations

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.

Rudy Giuliani

TimeDecisionBelieveThoughtNow

I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

FunCrazyDoingRememberDeskUp

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Christopher Hitchens

LonelinessMeUpConceptExile

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Brian Eno

IdeasGrowFeelingsPlaceDangerous

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

Peter York

GoodPeopleMePressureAmerican

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