Not Friends famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

  • No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

  • When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  • As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

  • I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

  • I'm always in those tabloids where they show who's badly dressed. It's funny, because each time I'm getting my picture taken, I'm thinking, This is a nice outfit.

  • Country comes before politics.

  • I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

  • The status quo is simply unacceptable.

  • Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments