Ever Quotes

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.