"I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song."

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"I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song."

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea."

Peter Noone, English Actor

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience."

Jerry Stiller, American Comedian

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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer

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"I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again."

Months

"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."

Name

"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."

Money

"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

Cities

"I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them."

Time

"I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start."

People

"If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going."

People

"You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop."

Europe

"I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to."

Money

"Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight."

Corporations