Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Richard Thompson Quotes

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Richard Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: April 3, 1949

Topics

Compromise Cheating More Everything

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Day Luck You Know Try Lucky

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

Life Truth Chance Abundance Living

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Laugh First Stage Got After Hooked

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

Curious Escape Human Everyone Leave

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

Positive Power Think Loss Want Vice

When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are the songs I chose to sing as a cover band.

Church Band Out Urban Started Sing

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Me Advice Paris Teach Accept Level

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

Good Angry Me Bad Just Because Open

It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?

Business Product Terrible

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

Music Direction Will Something Pop

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Phillips Brooks

Motivational Yourself You See Made

I direct as an actor. Many times, I will say, 'Let me try this.' And I'll walk the scene through and see what I can tell the actor about it. I don't know what to tell him until I've actually tried it and seen what the problem is.

Peter Bogdanovich

Walk Me Problem I Can Know Say

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Richard Thompson