Quotes About Experience

Spending time in Sweden on loan was one of the best things I ever did.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

I emigrated to the U.S. on February 3, 1983, when I was 19 years old. I joined Steeler right away and recorded the album the following month. I'd been playing in bands in Sweden since the age of 11, but 'Steeler' was my first album.

My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches - it was a little bit alien to me.

My dad played in Iceland and I think went over to Sweden for a couple of years.

I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you up in its hand and sweep you along.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Life is sweet, but sometimes old people just don't get it.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

I got recognized more by little sweet Italian fans in six days than I've ever been recognized in L.A. in six years.

I did do a local musical, 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar.' I played the young Sweet Georgia Brown. I was 13 years old. After that, I just decided that I had to pick one thing, acting or singing, and concentrate on that.

It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight - and I've fought every time.

I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.