Harry Nilsson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Believe #Live Life #Men
I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
-- Harry Nilsson

#House #Tree #Acid
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Mean #Goal #Hearing
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Mean #Sync #Songwriting
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Clubs #London #Typical
Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true,
-- Harry Nilsson

#Dream #Wish #Just A Dream
Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Echoes #Insanity #Mind
I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul.â€ She asked him: â€œWhy are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?â€, and he said: â€œBecause I love Paul.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Girl #New York #Saws
Go where the weather suits your clothes.
-- Harry Nilsson

#Weather #Clothes #Suits
A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.
-- Harry Nilsson

#No Point

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