Ideas Quotes

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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
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like,… — Lucinda Williams
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
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I… — Ani DiFranco
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
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that… — Mike Nichols
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
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth… — Alfred North Whitehead
Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook,… — John Legend
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
And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the… — Adolf Hitler

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