Top 43 Jose Gonzalez Quotes
#1. On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'
Rocky Bridges
#2. Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#3. It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.
Jose Gonzalez
#4. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
C.S. Lewis
#5. The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.
Jose Gonzalez
#6. It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
Jose Gonzalez
#7. People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
Jose Gonzalez
#8. The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.
Bell Hooks
#9. My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.
Jose Gonzalez
#10. I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.
Jose Gonzalez
#11. I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
Alex Prager
#12. I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.
Jose Gonzalez
#13. Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides,
Jose Gonzalez
#14. The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#16. We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.
Jose Gonzalez
#17. I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.
Jose Gonzalez
#18. My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.
Justin Timberlake
#19. I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
Jose Gonzalez
#20. I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.
Jose Gonzalez
#21. I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.
Jose Gonzalez
#22. I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.
Jose Gonzalez
#24. I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.
Jose Gonzalez
#26. We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.
Jose Gonzalez
#27. I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
Jose Gonzalez
#28. His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
William Golding
#29. When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.
Jose Gonzalez
#30. I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.
Jose Gonzalez
#31. They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.
Jose Gonzalez
#32. I always knew Fitz would wind up writing; although I figured he'd be a poet or a storyteller. He would play with language the way other children played with stones and twigs, building structures for the rest of us to decorate with our imagination.
Jodi Picoult
#33. I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
Jose Gonzalez
#34. Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Kevin Bacon
#35. I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
Jose Gonzalez
#36. Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.
Jose Gonzalez
#37. Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher,
Jose Gonzalez
#38. My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment.
Margaret Beckett
#39. Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high.
Bobb Biehl
#40. I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
Jose Gonzalez
#41. If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
Jose Gonzalez
#42. As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
Graydon Carter
#43. Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
