Marcus Mumford Quotes

#1. You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

Carla H. Krueger

#2. I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Marcus Mumford

#3. Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Alice Miller

#4. I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Marcus Mumford

#5. I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

Susana Martinez

#6. I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

Marcus Mumford

#7. It is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?

Gertrude Diamant

#8. The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth.

Gabrielle Tozer

#9. I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Marcus Mumford

#10. Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.' Saying

Dan Millman

#11. The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

Martin Puryear

#12. When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.

Marcus Mumford

#13. The problem isn't the desire itself, it's the context. You need more sexually relevant stimuli activating the accelerator and fewer things hitting the brake.

Emily Nagoski

#14. It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Marcus Mumford

#15. On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

Howard Schultz

#16. A lot of the time writers are just sponges ... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

Marcus Mumford

#17. I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

Marcus Mumford

#18. There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

William Morris Hunt

#19. I don't even call myself a Christian.

Marcus Mumford

#20. I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.

Jennifer Paynter

#21. A lot of the time it feels like ... music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It's kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Marcus Mumford

#22. His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet.

Claire Legrand

#23. Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

Jane Green

#24. Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

Marcus Mumford

#25. The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

Marcus Mumford

#26. I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

Kate Bush

#27. Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

David S. Landes