James Horner Quotes
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
-
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
-
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
-
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
-
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
-
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
-
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
-
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
-
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
-
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
-
I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
-
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
-
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
-
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
-
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
-
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
-
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
-
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
-
The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
-
The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
-
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
-
Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.
-
It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.
-
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
