Brian Chippendale Quotes
Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A I believe that, or B I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.Brian Chippendale
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey -
I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
Barbara Hale -
I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
Natasha Bedingfield -
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
J. K. Simmons -
I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
FKA twigs -
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo -
Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
Ibrahim Hooper -
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen -
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
Paloma Faith
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Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) - you will be kind and receive kind words.
W. Clement Stone -
Girl, tell me only this:That I'll have your heart for always.And you want me by your side,Whispering the words 'I'll always love you.'
Lionel Richie -
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:
Margaret Chase Smith -
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
Conor McPherson -
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
Doris Humphrey -
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
Lynn Coady
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I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
Artur Davis -
You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.
Alex Turner -
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza -
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
Zooey Deschanel -
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.
Eleanor Catton -
Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A I believe that, or B I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.
Brian Chippendale