„Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.“
Source: Journals
Kurt Cobain156
American musician and artist 1967 - 1994Related quotes
„I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? "You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!"
"Well," I said, slightly nonplussed, "the last time you saw me I'd just had a baby."
What I felt like saying was, "I've produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren't either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?" But no — my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!“
— Joanne K. Rowling British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series 1965
"For Girls Only, Probably..." at her website in "Section: Extra Stuff" http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=22.
2000s
„He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.“
— William Faulkner, book As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (1930)
„And no I can't find no reason to explain the way that I feel.
I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.“
— Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017
All Mixed Up
Lyrics, Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (1987)
„I can't waste time so give me the moment
I realize nothing's broken
No need to worry about everything I've done
Lived every second like it was my last one.“
— Jordin Sparks American singer, winner of 2007 American Idol 1989
Tattoo
„I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot.“
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/diary-of-a-mad-black-woman-2005 of Diary of a Mad Black Woman (25 February 2005)
Reviews, One-star reviews
„The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.“
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
„If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.“
— Ernest King United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations 1878 - 1956
Unsourced
„If I had been asked this about a year/year-and-a-half ago, I would have said "You can't trust everybody!" But now that I've been in the music industry, and famous, and on YouTube and stuff: "You can't trust everybody, at all."“
— Ysabella Brave American singer 1979
"Trust — what's the secret?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjBpaSm0d4 (27 January 2008)
„I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.“
— Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980
On Pilgrimage (1948), p. 127
„The word "hillbilly", I've never liked that, and I've never used that in my music.“
— Bill Monroe American bluegrass musician 1911 - 1996
The Bill Monroe Reader (2000) edited by Tom Ewing
„Seeing a lot of water like that every day is probably an important thing for human beings. For human beings might be a bit of a generalization—but I do know it’s important for one person: me. If I go for a time without seeing water, I feel like something’s slowly draining out of me. It’s probably like the feeling a music lover has when, for whatever reason, he’s separated from music for a long time. The fact that I was raised near the sea might have something to do with it.“
— Haruki Murakami, book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running (2009)
„I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.“
— Josh Groban American musician and actor 1981
Kansas City Star, 08/16/04
„My first words, as I was being born… I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm coming out one of those."“
— Stephen Fry, book Moab Is My Washpot
On being gay
Stephen Fry actually admitted this was a quote from a friend, not himself. (Moab Is My Washpot)
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
„One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head that only I can hear.“
— Maurice Jarre French composer 1924 - 2009
This quote was actually crafted by University College Dublin student Shane Fitzgerald. Shortly after Jarre's death, Fitzgerald uploaded https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Jarre&type=revision&diff=280558491&oldid=280527998 the false quote to Wikipedia to test "how our globalised, increasingly internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news," according to the Associated Press. "The sociology major's made-up quote…flew straight on to dozens of US blogs and newspaper websites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia quickly caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it, but not quickly enough to keep some journalists from cutting and pasting it first. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets in an email and the corrections began." The Guardian and The Herald "are among the only publications to make a public mea culpa," the Associated Press continues. See " Student hoaxes world's media with fake Wiki quote http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/student-hoaxes-worlds-media-with-fake-wiki-quote/2009/05/12/1241893953955.html," The Sydney Morning Herald (12 May 2009).
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