Quotes About Perspective

I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I'm in the dirt or I'm picked up and dusted off.

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

I've had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they'd dated the men they dated before they picked up their guitars, things would have been different. I'm not trying to name drop, but I've had this conversation with Cher, too, who has more last names than Zsa Zsa.

As a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

History picks interesting messengers.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

I kept begging and begging for a car when I turned 16. My dad got me a 1971 Chevy pickup with no air conditioning and no radio!

Details create the big picture.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.