Said Quotes
22477 Said quotes by 7737 unique authors
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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
— Max Beerbohm
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But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there…
— Unknown Author
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All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they…
— Richard Hamming
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in,…
— Bette Midler
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something,…
— Paul Simon
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When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S.…
— Marcus Mumford
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The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to…
— Tristen Gaspadarek
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She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the…
— Sara Paretsky
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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
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The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to…
— Sam Bush
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There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
— Paul McCartney
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One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family.…
— Dean Ornish
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I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.
— Tom Rush
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Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
— Mike Medavoy
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No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded…
— Loretta Lynn
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I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham…
— Don Helms
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Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also…
— Paul Zollo
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Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at…
— Paul Zollo
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We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.
— LeAnn Rimes
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One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that…
— Sheryl Crow
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The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
— C.S. Lewis
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I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In…
— Henny Youngman
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It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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