Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career
Alexander Borodin
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ANDY BIERSACK I expect to make a career out of country music.
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KACEY MUSGRAVES To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men...
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JOHN LASSETER I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
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VANESSA BROWN We do not judge the people we love.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
DANNY STRONG I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is t...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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BIG KENNY As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I...
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EDDY CUE I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a roman...
RAIN I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of...
BRANDON BOYD Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
ANATOLE FRANCE I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.
JENNY ECLAIR I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
TAYLOR NEGRON People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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OLESYA RULIN We want to write a bunch of music and make some noise in Cleveland.
BILL SPARLING As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I ca...
YAEL NAIM Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul...
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KACEY MUSGRAVES Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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LAURIE COLWIN I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it be...
NILE RODGERS Just as my fingers on the keys / Make music, so the selfsame sounds / On my spirit make a music, too...
WALLACE STEVENS A spontaneous prayer makes differences and does changes.
TOBA BETA My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, ...
STEPHAN JENKINS When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something...
BILLY JOEL Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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STEVE JOBS Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. ...
IAN FLEMING I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew a...
IDA TARBELL A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I ...
CAMILA CABELLO I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co...
LANGHORNE SLIM Music is a hit. People love coming and hearing live music.
CAROL WILSON The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any k...
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WILL DURANT Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do th...
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ERNIE WATTS I'm not in the music business; I'm in music, ... What I love to do has evolved, technically and harm...
ERNIE WATTS As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
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BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can...
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ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is t...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of ...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sens...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL