"I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise."

-- Leo Kottke

#Writing Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things -- anything and everything I think and feel.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maria". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. March 2, 1965.
“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”
“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”
“I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.”
“Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.”
“Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.”

Source : "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis, March 2, 2001.
“Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Princess”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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