Edie Brickell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
-- Edie Brickell

#Believe #Thinking #Yesterday
I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean
-- Edie Brickell

#Mean
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
-- Edie Brickell

#Grandmother #Kitchen #Looks
I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.
-- Edie Brickell

#Easter #Crazy #Eggs
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
-- Edie Brickell

#People #Enough #Young
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
-- Edie Brickell

#Water #Shallow #Choke
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
-- Edie Brickell

#Freedom #Prisoner #Feels
He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.
-- Edie Brickell

#Song #Kids #Eye
I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
-- Edie Brickell

#Musical
Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
-- Edie Brickell

#Philosophy #Cereal #Boxes
Religion is a light in the fog.
-- Edie Brickell

#Religious #Light #Fog
It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.
-- Edie Brickell

#Believe #Explanation #Hard To Believe
I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.
-- Edie Brickell

#Needs #Persons
My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
-- Edie Brickell

#Song #Writing #Angel
She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
-- Edie Brickell

#Reflection #Spoons #Egotism
You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
-- Edie Brickell

#Wish #Looks #Done
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
-- Edie Brickell

#Kids #Wish #Looks
When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.
-- Edie Brickell

#Goodbye #Sadness #Saying Goodbye
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
-- Edie Brickell

#Grandchildren #Recipes #Dressings
And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye
-- Edie Brickell

#Goodbye #Solitude #Way
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
-- Edie Brickell

#Love You #Self Love #Creative
I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
-- Edie Brickell

#Thinking #Inability #Problem
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
-- Edie Brickell

#Letting Go #Moving #Mind
What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
-- Edie Brickell
There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
-- Edie Brickell

#Hate #Fighting #Night
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
-- Edie Brickell

#Believe #Blessed #Good Luck
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
-- Edie Brickell

#Beautiful #Song #Dirty
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
-- Edie Brickell

#Mom #Taste #Becoming
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
-- Edie Brickell

#Who Cares #Looks #Realizing

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