#wanted

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— Fred Korematsu

#just #just living #life #living #my life

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #came #how #i #i came

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#guitar #hurt #i #make #music

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#amount #bonds #days #enormous #go

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bought #cut #engineer #i #kid

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#knew #time #wanted

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. ↗

— Bill Kreutzmann

#dad #eventually #i #instrument #listening

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers. ↗

— George Thorogood

#good #i #songs #wanted #were

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? ↗

— Arthur Golden

#eat #geisha #hair #how #i