#serious

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music. ↗

— George Michael

#absolutely #always #being #i #just

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#because #become #every #film-making #funny

At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#feel #going #i #i feel #job

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#i #seriously #simply #take #why

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #like #love #pressured #prose

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form. ↗

— Mark Morris

#art form #as far as #becoming #concerned #defend

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. ↗

— Andy Summers

#compete #guitar #hard #keyboards #serious

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. ↗

— Bill Murray

#definitely #foster #good #good writing #interested

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier. ↗

— Joe Murray

#assuming #banana #bananas #because #cheese

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #consequences #extinguish #life #must