#surprise

I can be a lady - surprise! ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#i can #lady #surprise

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? ↗

— Gotye

#aspect #because #big #brain #collecting

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#derive #doing #favors #feeling #gives

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. ↗

— James Huneker

#child #scratch #surprise #you

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#after #artists #belief #first #honored

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away. ↗

— LL Cool J

#better #do what you love #get #how #love

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. ↗

— Bill Joy

#going #i #know #surprised #system

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#i #me #more #often #people

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#cues #know #person #really #recognize

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

#appear #excess #fine #highest #his