Down Quotes

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People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be… — Willie Dixon
I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up… — Lamont Dozier
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then,… — John Lennon
I wake up from dreams and go, Wow, put this down on paper. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right… — Michael Jackson
I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do… — Debbie Harry
I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down… — Neil Young
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't… — Lenny Kravitz
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just… — Stevie Nicks
I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right… — Michael Jackson
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. — Wallace Stevens
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity. — John Keats
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic… — Florence King
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of… — Bernard Baruch
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down… — Rudyard Kipling
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in… — James Madison
If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a… — Lady Gaga
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense — Richard Branson

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