Ariel Pink Quotes

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

I don't have the look of a golfer. Do I look like a rock star? I didn't make it playing guitar so I started playing golf!

When my films didn't work, I wondered what was wrong in my acting graph, and then I realised the dedication I had for music, I didn't have the same for acting.

There are always bad games and bad afternoons.

I was a very cocky and unlikable young comic. But I came from the hood, and that's what I learned.

When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer.

Oh, I'm sure there's definitely people that don't like me.

Even if you do a great performance, if you have a weak link in the film, that's all anyone remembers.

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.

My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They were wrong. It took me five years.

As a reggaeton act, I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.