"The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do."

-- Kris Allen

#Mean Quotes #Winning Quotes #People Quotes

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”
“Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.”
“Old men need applause too.”
“You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.”
“I do not know how to make poems”

Source : Henri Michaux (1968). “Selected Writings: The Space Within”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“I love the creative, whole-foods recipes in But I Could Never Go Vegan! Kristy Turner has heard all the excuses and has a response for each. It's true, no life is complete without the occasional calzone-but stuff 'em with Kristy's Buffalo Cauliflower and Cashew Blue Cheese and you can have calzones and be vegan too. Get ready for your taste buds to explode.”
“I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.”

Source : "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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