Quotes About Appreciation

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Guest,' I was hating everything about it, but the first time, I loved it. The first time you watch it, you watch it as a whole. And the second time, I think you can learn a lot. By the third time, you are just picking everything apart.

'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

I like whomever to come to my shows. I want people who want to see me to come see me. I don't want to force people. I don't want it to feel like a job!

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.

That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!

A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.