“I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.” WritingCausesStuffFrankDnaTrumpetsBrass Author:Quincy Jones
“I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.” FoundCausesStuffGrowthMy OwnCreativeAnxietyUncomfortableMapsI Have LearnedRoad Maps Author:Merrill Markoe
“Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansActionPastCausesStuffTermHuman BeingsHalfBecomingDemandConflictCapableSimplicityForgottenBeing TrueObsessedTemptedSneakRazorsInsistingOld StuffOccam's Razor Author:Richard Russo
“The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stummblin' around, and it will make it a lot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal like surranwrap you... I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.” ImportantLyingHouseCausesStuffElementsTargetCrystalsCleanersFlashlights Author:Brandon DiCamillo
“I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.” ThinkingWellsHappensCoursesCausesStuffWrittenMagicMaterialsSticksStuff HappensThespians Author:Regina Hall
“Cause everything I've done - there's no smokescreen. Everything the people have seen me do, they've literally seen me start from the bottom and rise to the top. So there is no falling down once you've done the stuff I've done.” PeopleDoneFallCausesStuffBottomFalling Down Author:Riff Raff
“I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.” FeelsHeartKindStillsDifferentPlayBodyMovingCausesStuffHairArmsApproachTeenagerLoudDifferent KindsVibrate Author:Eddie Van Halen
“The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.” TwoEndsCausesStuffMinutesBandVersesCreamJamImprovisationChorus Author:Eddie Van Halen
“I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesMightKidsGirlFightingCausesStuffBitsLittle BitShoesLunch Author:Will Shields
“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.” PeopleWorldWantLooksMeanSoulHelpingWould BeLastsSpiritualHateCausesStuffMy OwnPracticeMeditationEgoAchievementI HateBoringHelping OthersTransitionContemplatingLast DaySpiritual PracticeHelping Other PeopleNavel Author:Isabel Allende
“I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.” WantCausesStuffSoundMy OwnFocusDegreesAlbumsBunchTempted Author:John Legend
“I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio.” KnowsWritingUsedCausesStuffStudiosSpotsNotebook Author:Nas
“I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.” TryingPersonsI CanPlayLostCausesStuffCarCarefulAccidentsWheelsCautiousMotorcycleLost FriendCar Accident Author:Gucci Mane
“I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.” IfsThinkingWantWritingBelieveMeanRealFactsReadingCausesStuffDon't BelieveExcitedReviewsSomething RealBad Stuff Author:Patti Smith