Goapele famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Close your eyes and see what you believe.
-- Goapele

#Believe #Eye
When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.
-- Goapele

#Impact #Would Be #World
The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient.
-- Goapele

#Independent #Artist #Differences
I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.
-- Goapele

#Artist #Opportunity #Reality
What I really appreciate about the music that I grew up to is that I feel like I can put it on now and still hear something new. It's still relevant. That's how I want my music to be perceived. It's what I strive for.
-- Goapele

#Appreciate #Want #Strive
Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African.
-- Goapele

#Fun #Hair #Self
But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.
-- Goapele

#First Love #Waiting #Forever

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

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