Imelda May famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!
-- Imelda May

#Alive
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.
-- Imelda May

#Writing #Mean #Pretending
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
-- Imelda May

#Mother #Fun #Numbers
There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.
-- Imelda May

#Together #Band #No Point
Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.
-- Imelda May

#Beautiful #Art #Fun
I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.
-- Imelda May

#Inspiration #Writing #Talking

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Imelda May famous quotes

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