#brain

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#away #brain #couple #day #during

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#brain #clear #fantasies #feeding #hear

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #director #heart #i #i think

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#brains #countries #dying #following #innocent

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#been #body #brain #else #good

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#hear #makes #quartet #sense #some

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#brain #four #glad #got #i

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. ↗

— John Mayer

#hopefully #music #people #see

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#amazing #amazing feeling #anything #body #brain

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep