"Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be."

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"Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be."

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Inspirational

"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days."

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"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."

Dave Foley, Canadian Comedian

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"The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution."

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

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"A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents."

David Del Tredici, American Composer

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"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside."

Loretta Young, American Actress

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"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

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"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."

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