"I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody."

-- Tom T. Hall

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Source : Cara Lockwood (2003). “I Do (But I Don't)”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“Motown, Motown, that's my era. Those are my people.”
“I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.”
“I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.”

Source : "Pick Up a Few Unconventional Between-the-Sheets Techniques from Jason Sudeikis". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. January 23, 2013.
“If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.”
“Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.”
“Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.”
“One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.”

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