Jeff Lynne Quotes

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

Jeff Lynne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 30, 1947

Topics

MusicNewWayOldSameDifferent

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

Joe Frazier

EyeBlindBagSpeedYoungSteel

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

Jerrold Nadler

LegalCongressWhyDecideRole

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

GreatBestPeopleSayHumourOut

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

Maureen O'Hara

ParentsMeFirstContractHeMovie

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

Toni Braxton

EnvyHeightGiantsSisters

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

Miguel de Icaza

PeopleDaysWordMostSomeUse

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

PresentAirportForceThem

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

FearMistakesNone

The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.

Jorge M. Perez

BusinessArtPhilanthropyAbsolutely

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

Craig Brown

TweetingMedium

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

LifeSeriousYearsBrevityWorking

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor

ArchitectureSocietySpeakLanguage

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jeff Lynne