"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies,……" — Tom Waits
"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs."
More Cautionary Quotes
- 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line… — Anthony Bourdain
- People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary… — Renata Adler
- Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated… — Paramahansa Yogananda
- Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less… — Paul Krugman
- Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale… — Eric Van Lustbader
- Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going… — Julia Cameron
- The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because… — Michael Crichton
- Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s. — Alfonso Cuaron
- Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not… — Steven W. Mosher
- I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some… — Neko Case
- I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different… — Robert Jordan
- PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale… — Clive Thompson