#sudden

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#better #board #calmly #chess #good

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#apologise #audiences #avoid #bad #bands

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#best #current #current state #embrace #embracing

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#before #changed #never #realize #reason

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#become #believe #blind #moment #see

When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#coldly #court #efficient #fascinating #go

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#becomes #calculated #dark #fun #i

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#aura #classical #desire #got #i

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me! ↗

— Terence Stamp

#call #end #fading #fellini #got