Written Quotes
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
Henrik Ibsen
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Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
Ellie Goulding -
In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Martin Luther -
The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
Cornelius Plantinga -
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
William Goldman -
They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living hymn Written in light, awaking at the breath Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William Faulkner
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde -
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William Golding -
A writer is someone who has written something today
J. A. Jance -
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.
Alejandro Zambra -
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
James Brown
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus -
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
William Allen White -
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
Erik Larson -
I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia -
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
Charles Dickens
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
Michael Faraday -
If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
Jim Gaffigan -
Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz -
The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers