Malik Bendjelloul Quotes

#1. When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

Paul Prudhomme

#2. If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

Malik Bendjelloul

#3. The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

Malik Bendjelloul

#4. Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

Malik Bendjelloul

#5. If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

Melody Beattie

#6. I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

Malik Bendjelloul

#7. There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Malik Bendjelloul

#8. The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

Bias Of Priene

#9. You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

Malik Bendjelloul

#10. The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

Malik Bendjelloul

#11. Power, wealth and immortality
they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

Christopher Pike

#12. In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

Kaoru Ishikawa

#13. My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

Malik Bendjelloul

#14. There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

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#15. We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Mark Twain

#16. My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

Allen Iverson

#17. Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Deborah Moggach

#18. Although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.

Ellen Kushner

#19. I think music docs could turn off some people.

Malik Bendjelloul

#20. I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

Ronald Reagan

#21. The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness.

Dita Von Teese

#22. I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

Ray Bradbury

#23. Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

Malik Bendjelloul

#24. Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

A.W. Tozer

#25. No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

John Steinbeck

#26. The more transparent something was, the more mysterious it seemed. The universe itself was transparent; as long as you were sufficiently sharp-eyed, you could see as far as you liked. But the farther you looked, the more mysterious it became.

Liu Cixin

#27. I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Malik Bendjelloul

#28. I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

Malik Bendjelloul

#29. Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

Malik Bendjelloul

#30. I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

Malik Bendjelloul