Agent M quotes

“Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.”
-- Agent M

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“I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write a song about. I will just start writing everything that I can think of while trying to write some things that are kind of poetic or sound like they could be in a song. Then, after the music is written, I go back and look at my subjects to see which one I think woud go with what music. Then, I formulate it into a melody and get the song.”
-- Agent M

#Notebook Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Personally, the message that I would like to convey to everyone is just that life is really great and you can do whatever you want with it. That's what I feel like I've gotten out of my experience with the band, because I have done so many amazing things that I never thought I would get to do-and I don't really feel like I'm any more qualified than the next person. I feel like people should take their goals seriously and do exactly what they want, because they can.”
-- Agent M

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“My favorite parts are definitely the traveling. Getting to see all the places that we've been is really amazing to me, [as well as] getting to meet all the people that we wouldn't normally meet. It's really awesome, because we really get to know their culture and see what it's like in other places in the world.”
-- Agent M

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #World Quotes

“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”

“Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.”

“Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.”

“When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.”

Source : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.

“I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.”

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”

“I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.”

Source : Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 27, 2016.

“I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?”