Like You Quotes - Page 4

• The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

  Harold Ramis

  Sadness, Choices, Sometimes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I also think you have to be very careful. I mean, the heritage of our company is very strong, and building some of these businesses into leading players is extremely tough. You and I can both build a trading business, and it looks like you're doing OK, and it looks like I'm doing OK. But, really, I am, and you aren't. It comes down to the quality of clients, quality of systems, quality of risk controls.

  Jamie Dimon

  Strong, Mean, Player

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Hair, Rope

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

  Joan Baez

  Believe, People, Sound

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But a lot of the things that you would see from artists would be behind the scenes that nobody would know about before, now it's all on display.

  Young De

  Growing Up, Artist, Media

  Interview with Bill Rock, 411mania.com. January 25, 2015.

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• Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

  Beth Ditto

  Years, Albums, Six

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Energy, Excited

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

  Elton John

  World, Want, Threatening

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, I guess: "Oh you're blonde, you can't play brunette." And I'm always like: "You know what? I'm going to prove you wrong, I'm going to make my hair brown."

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Thinking, Play, Hair

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Serious

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• I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you."

  Evangeline Lilly

  Heart, Role Models, Healthy

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I like to go play shows just to see people, so I'm not in the game of like, "You're at my show, you're gonna listen to it like this, blah blah blah."

  Travis Morrison

  Games, Play, People

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Shining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard."

  Justin Vernon

  Jobs, Feelings, Whole

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

  Ben Fountain

  Eight, Years, Effort

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

  Sampha

  Thinking, People, Details

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Teenager, People, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Father

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

  Stevie Wonder

  I Like You, Singing, Berries

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

  Adam Levine

  People, Band, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

  John Darnielle

  Friday, New York, June

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Car, Fuel, Way

  "Dead Can Dance". Interview with Ned Raggett, pitchfork.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

  David Longstreth

  Sometimes, Feels

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

  Michael Gira

  Hammers, Alive, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  People

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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