No Control Outside Album Quotes & Sayings

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy. — Hilary Duff

Skeletal remains show that plant-fed humans were a head shorter than meat-eating hunters, prone to anemia, infectious diseases, rotten teeth, and bone disorders. — Karen Armstrong

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits. — Gary Numan

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein

Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have. — Jill Shalvis

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control. — Daniel Johns

I should live my life on bended knee
If I can't control my destiny
You've gotta have a scheme
You've gotta have a plan
In the world of today, for tomorrow's man
No control — David Bowie

With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence. — Victoria Legrand

Always recycle wasted time — Benny Bellamacina

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. — Susannah McCorkle

I think I'm just trying to show a more mature side of the band and I think we've really come into the sound of our band. With every album we've grown, but I think this is just a really good picture of where we are right now and how we feel our music represents us. Under the thumb of other record companies we haven't had as much creative control and I think with this record we really did our own thing. — Jason C. Miller

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script. — Jake Gyllenhaal

I used to sell marijuana to my son's mom's new husband. And then I would take that money and give it to her as child support. — Felipe Esparza

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in. — Lupe Fiasco

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish. — Etta James

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. — John Dos Passos

On the stern quarterdeck, Leo rushed around like a madman, checking his gauges and wrestling levers. Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel of a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD. — Rick Riordan

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now. — Oscar De La Renta

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! — Lord Byron

Whatever you put your attention to gets energy from you and grows. Remove the attention and it dies. Be conscious and deliberate in this. Intention goes along with attention. What you intend and give attention to begins to become. — David Gikandi

Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record ... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned — Martin Barre

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do. — Janet Jackson

Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn't rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law. — Elyse Fitzpatrick

The more he held me and the more he whispered his love to me in the crook of night, the more I began to believe that I was made for something more. That my body could be used as a home for a child and that my heart could make room for a cradle. — Emily T. Wierenga