Quotes About Relevance

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

I was not a big Allman Brothers fan but I could relate to that because that is what the flavor of the day was at that time - at least it was like that for me.

I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny.

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren't aware of them.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go to Broadway shows, but shows like 'What's on the Hearts of Men' has a lot of issues that can relate to black families, and that's why I enjoy it.

In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

I'm a fan of music documentaries and I always love seeing what goes on behind the scenes. In kind of the new era of record companies and record releases and that sort of thing, there has to be way more content for the audience.

When I came back to Hindi cinema, I realized a generation had forgotten me completely.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!