David Gray Quotes

#1. I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith ... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

Emmy Rossum

#2. I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.

Gin Wigmore

#3. This wonderful gray of acceptance resides between the extremes of black and white thinking; looking for serenity, explore the gray. Part of that acceptance is understanding that life is hard and involves life and death. Part of that acceptance is that I am responsible for my actions.

David W. Earle

#4. A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

David Sheff

#5. It's an urban November P.M.: very last leaves down, dry gray hairy grass, brittle bushes, gap-toothed trees. The rising moon looks like it doesn't feel very well.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

David Gray

#7. A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,
And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint
Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.

David Rakoff

#8. I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

David Gray

#9. In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.

David Gray

#10. When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.

David W. Earle

#11. Pale winter sun
Is beatin' the ground
Why'm I throwin' away
The best thing that I've found
My young heart's in tatters and I'm sure
That it will be a long time healing
It's so hard to see what I'm doing this for
When loneliness is all that I'm feeling

David Gray

#12. I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

David Gray

#13. There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

David Gray

#14. Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world

David Gray

#15. My history's not very good, but did David win?

Andy Gray

#16. That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

David Gray

#17. You could make any man forget his years. When I saw you arrive in your lovely dress, I was conquered. If you don't wish to dance anymore perhaps we could chat?
- David Walton

Barry Gray

#18. is the answer none of the above
crouched in a hole like a mud-streaked fugitive
everyday a different version of
pouring it away like a water through a sieve

David Peter Gray

#19. Wonder in everything No matter how great or small ... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin ... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within

David Gray

#20. In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

David Baldacci

#21. On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.

David Quammen

#22. You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

David Gray

#23. October's gold is dim - the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

David Gray

#24. The sky is low and gray and loose and seems to hang. There's something baggy about the sky.

David Foster Wallace

#25. Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.

David Goodis

#26. A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.

J. David Gray

#27. Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

David Gray

#28. I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

David Gray

#29. I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

David Gray

#30. The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

David Gray

#32. As they prepared to mount, Barak's horse, a large, sturdy gray, sighed and threw a reproachful look at Hettar, and the Algar chuckled.
'What's so funny?' Barak demanded suspiciously.
'The horse said something,' Hettar replied. 'Never mind.

David Eddings

#33. The door opened and Decker was looking down at a small, balding man with a gray beard and wearing dark glasses. He was well into his seventies.

David Baldacci

#34. The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

Henry David Thoreau

#35. And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive ...

David Gray

#36. It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.

David Gray

#37. I find everything a struggle.

David Gray