![We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-thought-being-offered-the-mbe-member-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire-w.jpg)
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When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed. Andre Previn
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music boredom people
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom? Agnes Repplier
musician financial affair
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs Charlie Byrd
music song thinking
I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.
music doctors people
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
music mean emotional
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.
music brother django
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.
music design wish
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
believe people challenges
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. Carol Moseley Braun
believe america people
I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
believe people rumor
I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't. Carlos Mencia
believe people looks
God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.
believe moving hostile
I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value. Carlos Ghosn
believe dont-believe
Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
believe warrior faces
... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value. Carlos Castaneda
believe mind arrogance
What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.
believe presidential campaigns
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes. Carl Bernstein
order perfect horror
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. Carlos Fuentes
order awareness well-being
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
order use world
Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.
order wind needs
... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
order darkness exhausted
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. Carl Friedrich Gauss
order trying needs
Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally. Alan Sugar
order secret masonic
Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. Charles Taze Russell
order giving cabinets
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. Charles de Gaulle
order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Charles Caleb Colton