Tsui Quotes & Sayings

I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music. — Sam Tsui

A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire. — Brent Weeks

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. — Sidney Sheldon

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater. — Sam Tsui

At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it — Sam Tsui

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are. — Sam Tsui

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be. — Lupe Fiasco

Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and opens a region though they fail to give a map. — William James

He may gain consciousness and feel like talking. I could leave a nurse here but their damned professional cheeriness depresses introspective men. Talk to him if he feels like it, and if he wants a doctor call me on this. — Alasdair Gray

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover. — Sam Tsui

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself. — Jennifer Mason-Black

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion. — Sam Tsui

What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that counts or is real. While outside, all up and down the land, there are these wonderful colors and x-rays and ultraviolets going on. — Thomas Pynchon

The morning comes to consciousness — T. S. Eliot