"Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another…" — John Updike
"Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Another Song Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've…
— Dolly Parton
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I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different…
— Jon Anderson
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My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of…
— Junior Kimbrough
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We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were…
— Jimmy Page
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Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
— Joe Satriani
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if…
— Al Yankovic
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say…
— Wayne Coyne
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Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over…
— Don Henley
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I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever…
— Neko Case
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I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But…
— Fefe Dobson
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When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll…
— Ryan Adams
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I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try.…
— Jules Shear
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