Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!
Mika
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mika
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 18
Actor
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Phoenix
Arizona
Mica Mika Penniman
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.
Snob
Indie
Classical
Highest
Possible
Way
More quotes by Mika
I was born out of classical music.
Mika
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.
Mika
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
Mika
Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
Mika
In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!
Mika
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
Mika
No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.
Mika
We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.
Mika
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
Mika
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Mika
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references it was all about being naive.
Mika
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
Mika
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.
Mika
It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.
Mika
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
Mika
Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
Mika
In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
Mika
The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
Mika
My relationship with my mother is not cute.
Mika
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
Mika
