Malik Bendjelloul famous quotes

I think music docs could turn off some people.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Thinking #People #Turns

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Perfect #Interesting #Three

My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Two #Strange Stories #Specialty

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Thinking #Men #Sugar

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Growing Up #Kids #Jail

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Inspiration #Giving #Stories

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Careers #Music Career #Slowly But Surely

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Thinking #Wonderful

Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
-- Malik Bendjelloul

#Nice #House #Beverly Hills

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.