Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.
Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.
The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?'. . . If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own, baby.
The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters. " Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.
Most managers in the rock n' roll world. . . don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money. They're making these big, very expensive pictures that take a lot of money but don't really pay for their costs. So they're having a very difficult time. I can see the system breaking down. I think the American studios are a reflection or a metaphor for American industry altogether, which is failing in the world. Its economic domination is being broken down and I think the same thing is happening to the studios.
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Life is about making right things and going on.
If dreaming is free, then making it come true is, too.
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.