Ethel Merman Quotes
Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Ethel Merman
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Idries Shah
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Oscar Wilde
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You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.
Aziz Ansari
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
Miguel de Cervantes
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“I just make music. — The music I make, I make for myself,” he continued, “I’m the number one guy for me to please.” He is not one to force a track into a specific genre and would never create a record with the intentions of critical reception. “Sometimes 10 million people love what I do, sometimes 500 do… I have massive hits with some tracks, and some other tracks have stayed in the underground.”
Eric Prydz
Swedish House Mafia
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
Nathan Englander
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“When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”
Karl Weierstrass
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I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.
Hit-Boy
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A lot of times, guys are just out there playing and they'll just go and get you. I don't really think they're thinking about the helmet-to-helmet contact. You'll probably see a lot of players more hesitant before they make their hits.
Andre Johnson
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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.
Aristotle
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It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
Karen Bender
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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Vita Sackville-West
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Ethel Merman
