Corby's Quotes

#1. That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

Matt Corby

#2. Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Douglas Feith

#3. Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Robert Morgan

#4. Who's this - alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I - It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most - we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.

Siegfried Sassoon

#5. I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#6. If you're Microsoft, you can prevent a porn site using microsoft.xxx. Although that would be ironic since micro and soft probably aren't at the forefront of desirable concepts when you're looking for porn.

Gary Corby

#7. I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

Matt Corby

#8. Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

Matt Corby

#9. LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

Matt Corby

#10. If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.

Matt Corby

#11. He had to admit that the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you change.

Spencer Johnson

#12. There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

Matt Corby

#13. Who can be worried without the light of a memory?

Sorin Cerin

#14. I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

Matt Corby

#15. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Albert Einstein

#16. You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

Matt Corby

#17. A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.

Gary Corby

#18. A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Publilius Syrus

#19. Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had

Robert Galbraith

#20. I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

David Levithan

#21. We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

Brian Corby

#22. [The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.

Gary Corby

#23. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill

H.A. Corby

#24. Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.

Gary Corby

#25. The Gods hate hubris in a man almost more than any trait. Remember the boastful words of Odysseus to Poseidon after the fall of Troy? He paid for it with ten years of his life, and the lives of all his men. Retract your boast before something bad happens!

Gary Corby

#26. Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.

Donald Kingsbury

#27. It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

Matt Corby

#28. No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Matt Corby

#29. That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

Matt Corby

#30. A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

Matt Corby

#31. You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things.

Matt Corby

#32. If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

Matt Corby

#33. When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.

John Burnside

#34. I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

Matt Corby

#35. As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

Timothy Ferriss

#36. If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

Matt Corby

#37. Love was supposed to make you better, not make you hate the person you became in order to obtain it. His

Jay Crownover

#38. Chocolate is a kitchen witch's secret weapon. It makes friends easily, soothes troubled spirits, and is conducive to romance. When nothing else works, go with chocolate.
- Sadie Trevalyn's Book of Kitchen Witchery

Alyssa Goodnight