“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.” ThinkingWritingTryingSometimesCharacterSongTermCreatingThemeVisualsTransfersSoundtracksCreating Characters Author:Marisha Pessl
“I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.” KnowsHumorFunnySongBrainComedyIslandsThemeTriangles Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.” LittlesKidsSongWalksSingingTrainThemeLittle Kid Author:Andy Milonakis
“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.” PeopleMenKindFacesSongNamesCollegeNeededCallingDecidedMadMovedVideoCardsThemeLinksTwistsMad MenBusiness Card Author:Allison Williams
“Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!” YearsSongSonPoetTvsSeriesThemeBobRoyaltyTv SeriesOldest Son Author:Mitchell Zuckoff
“I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.” KnowsWayShowsLightSongStarsWaitingWatchesTvsSceneThemeMovie StarAdjustingMovie Sets Author:Dana Hill
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.” LightSongCatholicGloriousThemeThunderMartyrGoreAmenDensNorthern Lights Author:Christopher
“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.” GivingArtRealRealityFormPurposeArtistSongPaintingDeterminationTalesConfusedThemeImaginative Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.” HateSongThemeQuarrelsNeuroticHate Me Author:Mignon McLaughlin
“My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."” SongPayAttentionPay AttentionThemeViewers Author:Anne Sweeney