Angie Martinez Quotes

Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world's problems is not a great idea.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Politics should seize the imagination.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many, many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, bored by them.