Song Quote by Joseph Epstein

“No one can yet tell me why I am able to forget what I wrote in articles and reviews that I once felt passionate about, and yet am able to recall the entire lyrics of Some Enchanted Evening” quote by Joseph Epstein — Download Open image

““No one can yet tell me why I am able to forget what I wrote in articles and reviews that I once felt passionate about, and yet am able to recall the entire lyrics of Some Enchanted Evening””

Joseph Epstein

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Song

More by Joseph Epstein

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Joseph Epstein

Image

I think the story is my form.

Joseph Epstein

Image

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established one cannot do. To these two must be joined, third, the nuttiness to…

Joseph Epstein

“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment…”

Joseph Epstein

Image

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

Image

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Joseph Epstein

Image

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent…

Joseph Epstein

Image

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that…

Joseph Epstein

Image

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

Joseph Epstein

Image

“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A…

Joseph Epstein

Image

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Joseph Epstein

Image

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with…

Joseph Epstein

Image

Explore all 66 Joseph Epstein quotes

More Song quotes

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been…

John Denver

Image

When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions…

Kelli O'Hara

Image

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

Hoodie Allen

Image

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

Ivan Moody

Image

There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I…

Daniel Caesar

Image

As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I…

Margaret Cho

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of…

Mark Ronson

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of…

Conor Oberst

I think taking a hookline of a hit song and making a new song is fun.

Tulsi Kumar

Image

Each time, I hear your lovely song, It makes me smile. Every time, I hear you scream, It breaks my heart. Any time, I hear you crying, My Soul, Weeps. When you smile, I soar. When you laugh, I fly. When you giggle, I whimper. When I see your face, I mistakenly, Think I am witness, To the most beautiful,…

Eric Nickel

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,…

Jacques Roumain

I think a lot of our songs are good.

Hope Sandoval

Image

Browse all 19,028 Song quotes

Song Quote by Joseph Epstein

Related quotes

More by Joseph Epstein

More Song quotes