Corny famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
-- Andy Summers -
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
-- Annette Funicello -
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
-- Beth Gibbons -
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
-- Betty Buckley -
Anabolic ***** were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.
-- Bill Toomey -
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
-- Brian Eno -
It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.
-- Brian P. Cleary -
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
-- Bruce Sterling -
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
-- Carl Perkins -
I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.
-- Chris Webber -
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.
-- Cobi Jones -
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
-- Daniel Johns -
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
-- David Antin -
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
-- Ethel Merman -
It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.
-- Ezra Koenig -
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
-- George Carlin -
So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:
-- George Saunders -
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
-- Gertrude Stein -
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.
-- Glynis Johns -
The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.
-- Harold Lloyd -
If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?
-- Holly Black -
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
-- Jamie Zawinski -
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
-- Jessica Lange -
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
-- Joanna Newsom -
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
-- John Mahoney -
Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
-- John Malkovich -
I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.
-- John Mayall -
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
-- Johnny Ball -
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
-- Josiah Warren -
Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.
-- Karlie Kloss -
Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ***** raps be makin me doze off.
-- KRS-One -
It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
-- Malcolm Turnbull -
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
-- Mary Elizabeth Lease -
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
-- Mary-Louise Parker -
It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.
-- Michael Aspel -
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
-- Michael Ende -
Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
-- Michel Faber -
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
-- Nigella Lawson -
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
-- Peter Krause -
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
-- Portia de Rossi -
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
-- Rachel Stevens -
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
-- Richard Armour -
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
-- Richard Briers -
Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.
-- Richard Meltzer -
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd -
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche -
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.
-- Sue Kelly -
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
-- Susan Orlean -
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
-- Ted Nelson -
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
-- Thom Gunn -
I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.
-- Tony Robbins -
Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.
-- Trisha Goddard -
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
-- Vernor Vinge -
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
-- Wayne Coyne -
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
-- Wynonna Judd -
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
-- Yahoo Serious -
A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making a lot of stuff that you could call beats, and it dawned on me that I could say much more nuanced, precise things if I tried to make them more composed. It sounds a bit corny, but I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
-- Arca -
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
-- Eric Drooker -
I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.
-- Godfrey -
Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.
-- Jay Watson -
My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.
-- Jeanine Tesori -
Dancing is still, for me, one of those things that no matter when I do it and it sounds corny and cliche, but time stands still. I could literally dance for hours and hours on end and not realize that I've been dancing for hours and hours on end. In the right setting, I could literally dance all day and have a blast. It seems like one moment to me. There's nothing else going on, and it's the ultimate release.
-- Stephen Boss -
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
-- Orville Redenbacher
