Ideas Quotes - Page 441

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.

I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.

I love the idea of a shield law; I don't know of any journalist who doesn't love the idea of a shield law. It's all in the details. Some of the shield laws that were floating around sounded good, but when you looked at them, exceptions or exclusions or broadness in the language really invited some problems.

We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.

What I believe is important is that we win the battle of ideas.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!

I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.