David Soul Quotes

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

People remember my last name because it's different, and people remember me in meetings because I dress differently from other people just because I'm a woman. Those kinds of things give you an opportunity and a spotlight, so use that to your advantage. Use it as a platform to demonstrate your knowledge and your capabilities.

Invest in arts, culture and people, and the big name companies will follow and bring with them well-paying jobs.

People looked at me as a carpetbagger coming over from pop to country. But it helped because it got me in the room.

I have lived a crazy life since I was 16, have travelled the world, and met some amazing people. And if you can turn that into music, then you are doing something right.

Through our concerts and tours, we learned that our music is capable of bringing people together, breaking borders and genres. To symbolize all of that, we decided to sing 'The One' in English.

My sister sings, and in Mexico, we have these things called 'Casa de la Cultura,' which are specific places where they actually foster culture. They support people who want to do something in culture.

I've shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.