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Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

Nuno Bettencourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: portuguese
Birth: September 20, 1966

Topics

Great Song You Write Over Monster

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Jim Parsons

Past Me Actor Always Successful

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

John Abercrombie

Time Together Perfection Musicians

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

John Leonard

Friendship Friend Time Grow Long

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

Ani DiFranco

Work Baby Energy Resistance Little

An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.

Jeff Vandermeer

Change Environment Information Wrong

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ritchie Blackmore

Rock And Roll You Rock Always Up

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

Rory MacLean

Family Racism True Meat Humour Lean

My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.

Roma Downey

Family Love Prayer Me Bible Sit

What's fun now is that I have a show at USA that I co-wrote called 'Benched.' I'm completely behind the scenes and not the actor at all.

Michaela Watkins

Fun Now Actor Show Behind Scenes

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

Donovan

People Ideas World I Can Share Able

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

Donald Hall

Shoes Me American Tennis Scary Poet

I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

Deadmau5

Ideas Cool Test Bank See Where