- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always regret how I recorded 'Burgundy' 'cause it's not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are two words for everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020