Top 20 Yann Tiersen Quotes
#1. When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
Yann Tiersen
#2. The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.
Russell Kirk
#3. I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen
#4. We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
David P. Gardner
#5. Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
Deborah Harkness
#7. I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
Yann Tiersen
#8. The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E.B. White
#9. If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#10. I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Yann Tiersen
#11. In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
Yann Tiersen
#12. Besides, he who is feared, fears also; no one has been able to arouse terror and live in peace of mind.
Seneca.
#13. I am struggling, though. It's f-cking hard. So little sleep. It's 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.
Liev Schreiber
#14. When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them
Tana French
#15. Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
Yann Tiersen
#16. I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
Yann Tiersen
#17. My face. The same face I've seen every day since I woke. Every day that I remember.
Rae Thomas
#18. I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Yann Tiersen
#19. It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
#20. I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
Clint Eastwood
