Quotes About Old Age And Music

#1. From a very early age, I was in tune with pop radio, and most of this listening was done driving. We had an old '67 or '65 Buick LeSabre, and whenever we would drive around, I would actually stick my head right against the speakers in the back and sing along to the music.

Greg Graffin

#2. The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

Baltasar Gracian

#3. I've been gay since the day I was born.

Andy Cohen

#4. My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

Natascha McElhone

#5. In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

Paul Weller

#6. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Adam Smith

#7. Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.

Jack Deveny

#8. Just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good ... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument ...

Jorma Kaukonen

#9. I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil

Evelyn Waugh

#10. Our problem wasn't that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Evan Williams

#11. I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

David Steindl-Rast

#13. Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

Kenny Rogers

#14. I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Elizabeth Taylor

#15. Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

Cher

#16. His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}

Josiah Willard Gibbs

#17. Directions Combine syrup, fruit and walnuts; let stand overnight. Cut a slit in the crust of each slice of bread

Eva Miles

#18. Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.

Virginia Postrel

#19. Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

Slavoj Zizek

#20. What's important for me is to find the right kind of girls who express a vision of a woman. We like girls who look smart and intelligent with natural beauty - a certain quality of skin and hair. And she doesn't look exactly like a model.

Christophe Lemaitre

#21. Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning ... and you came for an old book.

Robin Sloan

#22. When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

#23. The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

Florence Welch

#24. When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Johnny Winter

#25. We both young what made you grow younger."
"The music?"
He nodded and whispered. "You don't have to go back to being old. We'll practice all the time. We'll record albums and we'll tour.

David Agranoff

#26. What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?

Noreena Hertz

#27. My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Tom Glazer