black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.

Zooey Deschanel

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Children Thinking Winter
There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Mean Opposites Ukulele
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Art Feeling Scare Thinking True
I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Romantic Sense Thinking
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn’t how I do things.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Admire People Thinking
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Crazy Movies People
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Christmas Holiday Love Things
I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Hate People Selling
That’s one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It’s a moment in time, and the less it’s messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Listening Powerful Song
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I’m a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Girl Hair Real
There’s nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy – that you can’t really compare it with anything else.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Compare Friend Great Joy
I think comedy’s just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Laughing People Thinking
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Difficult Gluten Vegan
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Hart Jazz Thinking
Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Beautiful Growing Pilates
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Late Other Sometimes Things

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Zooey Deschanel Quotes