Yael Naim Quotes

#1. If, as a professor, you ask four men and two women each to wear a cotton T-shirt, no deodorant and no perfume, for two nights, then hand these T-shirts to you, you will probably be humored as a mite kinky.

Matt Ridley

#2. He who has wealth has friends.

Chanakya

#3. I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Yael Naim

#4. I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

Yael Naim

#5. There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

Danny Boyle

#6. Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Yael Naim

#7. There is a clear correlation between how we treat each other and how a watching world will feel about Jesus. What should our neighbors deduce from our loving-kindness toward one another? One, that we obviously belong to Jesus, because what other explanation exists for such beautiful community?

Jen Hatmaker

#8. My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

Yael Naim

#9. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Yael Naim

#10. As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Yael Naim

#11. Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

Yael Naim

#12. I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

Yael Naim

#13. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Yael Naim

#14. What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Paul Samuelson

#15. I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

Yael Naim

#16. Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

Yael Naim

#17. If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.

Nalini Singh

#18. In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Yael Naim

#19. I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.

Dan Harmon

#20. Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

Yael Naim

#21. If I should die," Dalinar said, "then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there."
"The Codes?"
"No. The Way of Kings."
"That storming book.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

Yael Naim

#23. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#24. English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Yael Naim

#25. I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Yael Naim