Art Quote by Allen Toussaint Download Open image “Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.” — Allen Toussaint ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Music Particular Song
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations. — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions.… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that. — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that. — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers. — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America. — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image