Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys,… — Paul Zollo
Often the simplest song is the hardest to write. — Patti Smith
It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor… — Robert Paul Wolff
I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show. — Tommy Emmanuel
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
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the… — David Massengill
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
If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often. — Guy Clark
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. — Paul Simon
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that… — Billy Graham
In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave… — Hillary Clinton
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my… — Heather Armstrong
Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often… — Charles Shaar Murray
A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. — Samuel Johnson
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. — Dale Carnegie
Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We… — Eliot Spitzer
Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often. — Wayne Dyer
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the… — Carl Sagan
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,… — Florence Nightingale
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. — Mac Barnett
Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God. — Raymond Moody
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt

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