Jarryd James famous quotes

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.
-- Jarryd James

#Mind #Sound #Wanted

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.
-- Jarryd James

#Way #Honest #Kind

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.
-- Jarryd James

#Important #Rooms #Forget

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.
-- Jarryd James

#People #Together #Stuff

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.
-- Jarryd James

#Song #Writing #Thinking

It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because I've spent so much of my time, so much of my life trying to get really good at writing songs and playing instruments.
-- Jarryd James

#Song #Writing #Funny Things

I don't like being in big crowds, I don't like being in a room full of people. I get anxious and nervous, but I'm pretty confident about my music. It excites me because I get to sing to all those people.
-- Jarryd James

#People #Crowds #Rooms

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.