Down Quotes

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.