Idea Quotes

9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into… — Janet Evanovich
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone… — Unknown Author
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line… — Mose Allison
Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it… — David Lynch
I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what… — Paul Simon
Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story,… — Paul Simon
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use… — Paul Simon
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But… — Paul Zollo
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. — Diane Setterfield
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead… — Scott Avett
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was… — Scott Avett
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling.… — Daryl Hall
Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat on my ass.… — Rodney Crowell
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
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle… — Ann Brashares
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the… — Tom T. Hall
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to… — Unknown Author
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never… — Charlie Daniels
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into… — David Bowie
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get… — Lauryn Hill
I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs… — Hanif Kureishi
As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple… — Barack Obama
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a… — Strobe Talbott
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them… — Unknown Author

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