Hoagy Quotes

#1. Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens.

Herman Melville

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Hell itself, although eternal, dates from the revolt of Lucifer. It is therefore permissible, in the light of this distant analogy, to think of myself as being here for ever, but not as having been here for ever.

Samuel Beckett

#7. All right," Jake said, clapping his hands. "Which one of you little punks is gonna teach me how to play Chutes and Ladders?

Emmy Laybourne

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#9. I became fascinated by the notion of dispelling stereotypes or misconceptions through photography, of presenting the counterintuitive.

Lynsey Addario

#10. I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!

Masashi Kishimoto

#11. The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.

Ahmet Ertegun

#12. You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

Jay Leno

#13. 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

#14. Slow motion gets you there faster.

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#18. All I do when we're apart is think about you,and all I do when we're together is panic

Rainbow Rowell

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#20. Ragtime was my lullaby.

Hoagy Carmichael

#21. You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

Sufjan Stevens

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael