Zola Jesus quote: "It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do."

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
ZOLA JESUS

True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic cont...
ZOLA JESUS

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
ZOLA JESUS

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
ZOLA JESUS

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate...
ZOLA JESUS

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking ov...
ZOLA JESUS

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was p...
ZOLA JESUS

No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
ZOLA JESUS

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she i...
ZOLA JESUS

The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same ...
ZOLA JESUS

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and...
ZOLA JESUS

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
ZOLA JESUS

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, ...
ZOLA JESUS

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it ...
ZOLA JESUS

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are v...
ZOLA JESUS

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, ...
ZOLA JESUS

When you fall in love, you become weak.
ZOLA JESUS

Believe, and you shall receive.
JESUS

Do not have fear, the Lord your God is here.
JESUS

Where ones treasure is there also is his heart.
JESUS

I no longer run barefoot.
ZOLA BUDD

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public st...
ZOLA BUDD

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
ZOLA BUDD

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it...
ZOLA BUDD

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
ZOLA BUDD

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
ZOLA BUDD

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a ...
ZOLA BUDD

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of ...
EMILE ZOLA

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
EMILE ZOLA

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
EMILE ZOLA

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow up, and gather to itself such ex...
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
EMILE ZOLA

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a c...
EMILE ZOLA

I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
ÉMILE ZOLA

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indi...
EMILE ZOLA

I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it ...
ZOLA BUDD

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hi...
ÉMILE ZOLA

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLA

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall ...
EMILE ZOLA

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
ÉMILE ZOLA

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; the...
EMILE ZOLA

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
ÉMILE ZOLA

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I car...
EMILE ZOLA

On suffoquait, les chevelures s'alourdissaient sur les têtes en sueur. Depuis trois heures qu'on é...
ÉMILE ZOLA

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and whi...
EMILE ZOLA

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care ab...
ÉMILE ZOLA

He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certai...
ÉMILE ZOLA

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live o...
EMILE ZOLA

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on th...
EMILE ZOLA

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explo...
EMILE ZOLA

I am here to live out loud
EMILE ZOLA

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if on...
ÉMILE ZOLA

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we...
ÉMILE ZOLA

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...
ÉMILE ZOLA

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thou...
ÉMILE ZOLA

All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness...
ÉMILE ZOLA

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...
ÉMILE ZOLA

'Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety
EMILE ZOLA

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that t...
EMILE ZOLA

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
ÉMILE ZOLA

He beheld Lourdes, contaminated by Mammon, turned into a spot of abomination and perdition, transfor...
ÉMILE ZOLA

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLA

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
ÉMILE ZOLA

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it&...
EMILE ZOLA

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
EMILE ZOLA

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles...
EMILE ZOLA

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLA

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know eve...
EMILE ZOLA

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, a...
EMILE ZOLA

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
EMILE ZOLA

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
EMILE ZOLA

In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respecta...
ÉMILE ZOLA

I am here to live out loud.
ÉMILE ZOLA

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

A silence fell at the mention of Gavard. They all looked at each other cautiously. As they were all ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

To get a really good game you have to have two (teams) playing, sometimes teams are very compact and...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

I think this is the right thing to do,
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

I think Chelsea players play lovely football but sometimes you do not get much joy from watching the...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

It's fair that the sport is stopped ... there are more important things than soccer,
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go t...
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
GIANFRANCO ZOLA

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
ÉMILE ZOLA

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
ÉMILE ZOLA

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because...
ÉMILE ZOLA

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets...
ÉMILE ZOLA

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of th...
ÉMILE ZOLA

The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of...
ÉMILE ZOLA

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their ...
ÉMILE ZOLA

From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. The first few chapters may g...
ÉMILE ZOLA

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
JESUS CHRIST

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth...
JESUS CHRIST

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but si...
JESUS CHRIST

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love the...
JESUS CHRIST

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
JESUS CHRIST

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
JESUS CHRIST

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
JESUS CHRIST

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
JESUS CHRIST

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same...
JESUS CHRIST

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it...
JESUS CHRIST

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you...
JESUS CHRIST

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you sh...
JESUS CHRIST

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
JESUS CHRIST

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
JESUS CHRIST

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of...
JESUS CHRIST

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And ...
JESUS CHRIST

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
JESUS CHRIST

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
JESUS CHRIST

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
JESUS CHRIST

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door wil...
JESUS CHRIST

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater tha...
JESUS CHRIST

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasur...
JESUS CHRIST

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
JESUS CHRIST

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Ha...
JESUS CHRIST

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall...
JESUS CHRIST

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in t...
JESUS CHRIST

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jew...
JESUS CHRIST

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
JESUS CHRIST

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish...
JESUS CHRIST

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own tro...
JESUS CHRIST

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. -Jesus Christ.
JESUS CHRIST

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdo...
JESUS CHRIST

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vi...
JESUS CHRIST

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he put...
JESUS CHRIST

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
JESUS CHRIST

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
JESUS CHRIST

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
JESUS CHRIST

The Woman of the Year Awards remind us of the value of gender diversity in the Hispanic economy, and...
JESUS CHAVARRIA

I say, I've fed his sheep. Now I'll tend to them, ... tend to my sheep.
JESUS CHRIST

Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than ...
JESUS CHRIST

We are here showing our opposition to the FBI's attitude, to this persecution of our Puerto Rican br...
ALBERTO JESUS

I believe that this is an act of abuse and an act of persecution. We have here a foreign country tha...
ALBERTO JESUS

If Missy scores there, it could have turned the whole enchilada around. We won the game 2-0, but it ...
JESUS TORRES

No mundo tereis aflições, mas tende bom ânimo, eu venci o mundo.
JESUS CRISTO

for God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son' John 3:16
JESUS CHRIST

The beauty of women is the root of all evil, it makes men lose their minds
JESUS BARRAZA

Do we really learn from our mistakes, or do we enjoy the pain that we cause and are caused...
JESUS BARRAZA

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
JESUS CHRIST

I will not know peace until this storm dies off or goes away forever
JESUS BARRAZA

For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
JESUS CHRIST

We have a message about Jesus Christ for you. Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
JESUS CHRIST

Agree with thine adversary quickly.
JESUS CHRIST

Don't trust people that you have only heard great stories of
JESUS BARRAZA

Live in me, let me live in you, says the Lord.
JESUS CHRIST

Both the pre-Hispanic structure and the Holy Week rituals are part of our cultural legacy, so we hav...
JESUS SANCHEZ

There was a big load we carried on our shoulders. We need to carry on. It was tough but we are a fam...
JESUS RODRIGUEZ

This disorder is not something that can be cured. It's seen as a lifelong disorder, much like diabet...
JESUS PADILLA

Church's new 'Spicy Chicken' campaign is a case in point. Taking first-hand insights from Church's m...
JESUS RAMIREZ

Meu filho, se você aceitar as minhas palavras e guardar no coração os meus mandamentos; se der ou...
JESUS CRISTO

Its only when people see the fiery tears rolling down your face when they finally realize the deep p...
JESUS BARRAZA

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
JESUS CHRIST

Verily, veliry, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath eve...
JESUS CHRIST

Now I will go and bring you a star down to earth, so that you see that by the time I'm back I'll sti...
JESUS BARRAZA

If I could have any super power that I wanted, I would choose to be able to understand a womans mind
JESUS BARRAZA

But Who do you say I am?
JESUS CHRIST

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth...
JESUS CHRIST

Sometimes our enemies are disguise as family and friends. You must forgive yourself for having chose...
JESUS APOLINARIS

If Thailand can attract 12 to 13 million foreign tourists, I don't see any reason why the Philippine...
JESUS FELIPE

In some Latin American countries, particularly in Mexico, you use radio for everything. You don't ha...
JESUS LOZANO

For behold, I, God, have asuffered• these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would...
JESUS CHRIST

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
JESUS CHRIST

In the world you will have trouble but take courage for I have conquered the world.
JESUS CHRIST

A child is the root of the heart.
MARIA DE JESUS

The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explo...
JESUS ZAMORA BONILLA

Consider the capacity of the human body for pleasure. Sometimes, it is pleasant to eat, to drink, to...
JESUS I. ALDAPUERTA

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
SAINT THERESA OF JESUS

My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
MARY (MOTHER OF JESUS)

Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?
CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST THERESA OF JESUS

Never take sides but your own. Then, look around.
JESUS A. HINOJOSA JR.

Not is the Stone, is the power of the Lord and your faith that Killer the Giant that haunts you
RAFAEL D JESUS FERRERAS CASTILLO

We Be Close to You Jesus, You are our Light and Hope in this dark world
RAFAEL D JESUS FERRERAS CASTILLO

The Bible states that Daniel was beloved by God, says he had a spirit than on the others, had intell...
RAFAEL D JESUS FERRERAS CASTILLO

But charity is the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it ...
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

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