Quotes About Discovery

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

I first started listening to Sondheim's work when I was a kid.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

A lot of great songs get looked over.

As an artiste you want to experiment, meet new people and do different kind of songs.

I feel like my whole life I've been searching for what I want to do, searching for my identity as a musician and a songwriter, and my band's identity.

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

I never dreamed of being a singer or songwriter. It just happened.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

There are so many songwriters that people don't know about. There's so many producers that people don't know about.