Hoagy Carmichael Quotes

#1. Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious."
"What about the one time when you're not?"
"I'm asleep.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#2. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

Rosellen Brown

#3. The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

Hoagy Carmichael

#4. The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Hoagy Carmichael

#5. My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

John Mellencamp

#6. When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#7. I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Patricia Clarkson

#8. This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

Hoagy Carmichael

#9. Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

Hoagy Carmichael

#10. Slow motion gets you there faster.

Hoagy Carmichael

#11. I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

Hoagy Carmichael

#12. I used to be a folk singer, but I was ... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women.

Billy Connolly

#13. In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Hoagy Carmichael

#14. I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

Hoagy Carmichael

#15. The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. It's cast off without any thought whatsoever. But happiness, victory, and life are sacred because they are fleeting and stingily measured.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

Hoagy Carmichael

#17. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

Danielle Cormack

#18. Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new business ... These efficiencies have really given us the ability to take advantage of new opportunities and expand our business.

Don Richardson

#19. Ragtime was my lullaby.

Hoagy Carmichael

#20. As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

Rick Smolan

#21. A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

Damian Green

#22. I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Pele

#23. I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

Hoagy Carmichael

#24. You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

Hoagy Carmichael