It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

True contentment comes with empathy.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?