Simple Quotes

• I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

  

  James Horner
  • People
  • Music
  • Weird

• I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Together
  • Singing
  • Progress

• I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Simple

• I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Reason
  • Drink
  • Tweet

• I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Language

• The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Up
  • Science
  • Black

• I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Game
  • Best

• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Done
  • Best
  • Advice

• I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'

  

  Mark Canton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• A simple box is really a complicated thing.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Simple

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Dark
  • Existence
  • Piano

• It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Government

• Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Simple

• I'll always be a fan of ol' stray dogs and guitars playin'.One room churches, back road walks and front porch swingin'.Sunset skies, bonfire nights, I love the simple things.That's how I'll always be.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Simple
  • Road
  • Sunset

• The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.

  

  Angela Lindvall
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Healing

• That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Simple
  • Thought
  • Sound

• It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy

• Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

  

  George Benson
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Gigs

• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Great
  • Song
  • Proud

• There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Practice

• If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

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