Beth Nielsen Chapman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Years #Water #Gone
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Song #Jobs #Writing
I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Hurt #Heart #Ice
Only the ones who believe ever see what they dream, ever dream what comes true.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Dream #Believe
People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Falling In Love #People #Falling For You
I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Fall #Feelings #Trying
It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Voice #Piano #Guitar
I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective
-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Song #Writing #Subjective

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act...
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"
I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

Beth Nielsen Chapman famous quotes

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