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Quotes by English Authors
"I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music."
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
"Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God."
"We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions."
"That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain."
"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."
"It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that."
"Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'"
"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
"God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all."
"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner."
"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."
"I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple."
"All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other's views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct."
"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."
"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it."
"I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for."
"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
"The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone."
"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."
"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
"It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again."
"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
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