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

• 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 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

• 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

• If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Want
  • Written
  • Picks

• All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

  

  Aristotle
  • Persons
  • Right
  • Follow

• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

  Aristotle
  • Persons
  • Virtues
  • Useful

• Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

  

  Howard Baker
  • Hero
  • President
  • Persons

• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  

  Kathleen Grissom
  • Never
  • Learn
  • Process

• I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.

  

  Richard Masur
  • Persons
  • Honest
  • Bored

• If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • Album
  • Rock And Roll

• You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Waiting
  • Making
  • Dollar

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

  

  Merle Travis
  • Persons
  • Written
  • Saddest