Josh Gordon Quotes

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

A chorus is not easy.

I think when you look at the diversity of the readership, all the different people who love comics, I want comics to reflect the real world, and I think Marvel does a good job of trying to do that, but I don't think there's ever an end point when it comes to creating diversity and creating stories that people can relate to.

Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to it.

As long as the actor is able to maintain an emotional relatability with the audience, he or she will be loved by them.

It's important to stay normal and live in the real world. I know this is where you find happiness.

I will safely say that I prefer singing a song in a stretch if I am allowed to. A lot of times, I do choose to and do sing the asthayi and antara in one take, respectively. And I give a few takes until I feel it is perfect.

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

I just try to keep that connection to normalcy. I never want to lose that, being normal. People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy. I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.