Trying Quotes - Page 564

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

I never thought we would rise to the height where the salaries are today. The rules have changed an awful lot. That benefits the public. Let's put it this way. It makes the game a little more exciting is what I think players were trying to work for because there would be more scoring in the games.

I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you're aware of that person's vibe. You're trying to get inside of them.

I am trying to get closer to God.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as elegantly as you can, "I wasn't trying to represent you I, was just doing what I could do to make being alive easier for me." And if it helped anyone or made them feel comforted in the process then it's the greatest thing you can ask for.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself.

Don’t try to be anything but yourself, and find success as yourself. Otherwise, you won’t be happy.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

I try not to sleep with every girl I see, but it's hard!

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.