Bettencourt Quotes & Sayings

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them. — Nuno Bettencourt

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way. — Nuno Bettencourt

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it. — Nuno Bettencourt

Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands — Larry Moniz

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it. — Nuno Bettencourt

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it. — Nuno Bettencourt

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you. — Nuno Bettencourt

Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous. — Sam Malone

Designated mouros or Moors, in view of their association with Mauritania (the Roman name for the Maghreb), these antagonists became the "straw men" for Portuguese nationalist ideologues for many centuries. For, in a sense, the mouros were the midwives attendant on the birth of the nation of Portugal, and once in adolescence the nation still felt the need to define its identity in contradistinction to them. — Sanjay Subrahmanyam

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles. — Nuno Bettencourt

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet? — Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too. — Nuno Bettencourt

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that. — Nuno Bettencourt

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave. — Nuno Bettencourt

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you. — Nuno Bettencourt

Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth ... Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven. — Billy Graham

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right. — Nuno Bettencourt

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life. — Nuno Bettencourt

I'm going home, but there's nothing for me there. I am adrift. I hate that word. — Craig Lancaster

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people. — Nuno Bettencourt

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it. — Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease. — Nuno Bettencourt

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. — Nuno Bettencourt

It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.' — Nigel Hamilton

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times. — Nuno Bettencourt

I think I'm a music fan before anything else. — Nuno Bettencourt

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up. — Jay McInerney

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about. — Nuno Bettencourt

Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate." — Nuno Bettencourt

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different. — Nuno Bettencourt