Ends Quotes
13717 quotes by 6755 authors
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I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's like you're on…
— Robert Earl Keen
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Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville…
— Eric Church
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Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the…
— John Irving
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I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life…
— Unknown Author
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Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but…
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I…
— James Taylor
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley.…
— Steve Earle
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.…
— Philip Roth
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
— Tom Waits
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Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
— Jerry Moran
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You…
— Annie Lennox
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I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth…
— Hans Zimmer
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Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or…
— Hillary Clinton
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[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic…
— Kate Millett
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Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
— Robert H. Schuller
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For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. . . Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on…
— Barack Obama
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It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke…
— H.G. Wells
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The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.…
— John Francis Hylan
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A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.
— Swami Vivekananda
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