Burl Ives Quotes

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Burl Ives

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1909 - April 14, 1995

Topics

NatureMyselfSpringMeCoolWind

As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.

Jessie Usher

StartActingWantMy OwnCompany

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

John Lasseter

LifeDesireAnimationAnythingWhole

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

FootballBrainDoingTryingDrunk

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

John Surtees

PolicyContractsDriverAvailable

There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being a writer. So, I don't even think about other people. I'm just interested writing about human beings so if somebody calls and says, 'We'd like you to do it,' I'd say, 'That sounds like a cool idea.'

Mike O'Malley

PeopleMeCoolWritingThinkYou

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

Miguel Nicolelis

NatureUniverseViewHuman Nature

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Jonny Greenwood

MusicAgePeopleDisappointmentLot

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

Dick Cavett

NightHimWorkingAdvantageStill

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

Davy Jones

LifeMy LifeCareerActingChanged

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

Colson Whitehead

AbstractStartedBooksLotPremise

I'm obsessed with lip stuff. I have to have stuff on my lips at all times.

Constance Zimmer

LipsStuffLipObsessedTimes

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Alison Goldfrapp

WorkMusicThinkYouWriteMyth

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