Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corey Smith

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

Corey Smith

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

Corey Smith

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Corey Smith

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

Corey Smith

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

Corey Smith

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

Corey Smith

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

Corey Haim

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Corey Taylor

When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Paula Poundstone

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

Paula Poundstone

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

Paula Poundstone

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

Terry Southern

I like to work at night.

Neil Patrick Harris

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

Phyllis Diller

When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Rajneesh

If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you gocourting, not courting, that is not the point. Wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness.

Rajneesh

Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.

Rajneesh

People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness. Do things in your own style; live your life according to your own light. And even if the same situation arises, be alert to find a new response. It is only a question of a little alertness, and once you have started enjoying... and it is really a great joy to respond to old situations always in a new way, because that newness keeps you young, keeps you conscious, keeps you non-mechanical, keeps you alive.

Rajneesh

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

Socrates

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Merce Cunningham

Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.

Michelle Paver

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

Michael Moss

Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine.