Merle Travis Quotes

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Merle Travis

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• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Persons
  • Surveillance

• I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Persons
  • Made
  • Appreciation

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Violence
  • Persons
  • Slavery

• The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Time
  • Persons

• I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Music
  • Persons
  • Personal Growth

• I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Color
  • Persons
  • Senate

• The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Facts

• Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Technology
  • Joy
  • Persons

• If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Different
  • Home
  • Words

• I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Persons
  • Fortunate

• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Relationship
  • Emotional
  • Persons

• If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?

  

  Michael Badnarik
  • Giving
  • Winning
  • Chairs

• Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Alone

• During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Energy
  • Difficult
  • Put

• I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.

  

  Miguel Cabrera
  • Time
  • Better

• The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

  

  Merle Travis
  • Persons
  • Written
  • Saddest