Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kou Shibasaki

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.

Harold Prince

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

Rachel Platten

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Bill Callahan

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Valerie June

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

Sarah McLachlan

Running is very rhythmic, and I have written a lot of lyrics while out running. It's a very musical exercise, and sometimes I like to sing when I run. Your whole body is doing the same thing.

Leon Bridges

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Dido Armstrong

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

Al Yankovic

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

Billie Piper

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

Jason Aldean

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Janina Gavankar

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Uzo Aduba

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

Brian Eno

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Bob Dylan

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

David Walker

Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

David Ulevitch

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

David Ulevitch

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

David Twohy

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

David Remnick

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

David Horowitz

Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.

David Hume

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

David Hume

All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.

David Hume

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

Diana Gabaldon

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Carl Sandburg

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Cameron Diaz

It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Aamir Khan

Education is education, be it verbal or written.