"I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me."

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Source : Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

Lyle Lovett

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“You know, most girls sleep with a teddy bear or an extra pillow. But I gotta say, that's kinda hot...”

Source : Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.88, Harlequin
“The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.”
“Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be”
“I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.”
“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”
“Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.”
“To say, â€œI've been converted and that's that,â€ is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.”
“I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.”

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