S Ideas Quotes

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand.

You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

But the fact that most of the show you can't be prepared for, you have no idea really what's coming is initially very nerve wracking, by now, it's kind of fun.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.

I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.