Mel Tillis Quotes

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

Mel Tillis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 8, 1932 - November 19, 2017

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MusicYourselfI AmPeopleSongYou

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

John Burdett

LifePathImaginationAmazingSafety

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

John Glenn

WomenTrainingSeeJustAstronaut

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

John Clayton

GodBelieveSayWhyMatterMore

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

John Muir

FoolFunTreesLongDownRun

People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicPeopleMeI CanNothingWho

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

John Pistole

BalancePeopleSafetySecurityBlend

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

Simon Rattle

NaturePeopleForestPowerfulRules

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

Robert Adams

ThoughtPicturesThingsSomething

Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

Roseanne Barr

FamilyWomanFatNobodyHerShow

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

Martin Shkreli

YouKnowBeingFigurePublic

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

Michael Moore

DemocracyGunYouDownCountryHow

I believe women need to take charge.

Denise Morrison

WomenBelieveI BelieveNeedTake

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