Nagano Quotes & Sayings

Every day is an adventure, or it's just some thing you do. It's your choice. — Barry L. Hughes

Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad. — Yukimi Nagano

Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix. — Yukimi Nagano

Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know. — Yukimi Nagano

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space. — Yukimi Nagano

True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around. — Yukimi Nagano

You're a little dodgy, you know that?"
"And you're fucking adorable. — Penelope Ward

And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling — Michelle Kwan

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in. — Yukimi Nagano

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit. — Yukimi Nagano

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large. — Diane Ladd

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My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong. — Yukimi Nagano

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that. — Jess Row

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible. — Yukimi Nagano

I was doing the 'Vogue' fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I'm a really hard walker. I hadn't had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been perfect. So I come down the steps on live TV, and I slip. I didn't fall, but you could see the look on my face. I was mortified. I was devastated. — Jessica White

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware. — Yukimi Nagano

Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted. — Yukimi Nagano

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy. — Yukimi Nagano

What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you. — Kate Gleason

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent. — Yukimi Nagano

You can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue. — Rabih Alameddine

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance! — Davy Jones

Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. — Paul Coelho

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that. — Yukimi Nagano

Generals were early to bed, early to rise, always brushing their teeth after every meal, never skipping a morning shave. All they had to do was sit back in Nagano drawing up their battle plans. One order from them and us mortals on the front lines would move like pawns across a chessboard to our grisly fates. I'd like to see just one of them here with us in the mud. We had our own rules down here. Which is probably why they stayed away. If one of them showed, I'd see to it a stray bullet put them on the Killed In Action list. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher. — Yukimi Nagano

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse. — Kathleen Turner

In the end words are just wind. — George R R Martin

When you come right down to it, what do you want from your meditation? You meditate to make the mind quiet, and the mind becomes quiet from letting go. That's what the meditation is: letting go. If you meditate in order to "get" something, that's craving, the cause of suffering. Meditation isn't an affair of craving. — Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco