Hoagy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#6. 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

#7. Ragtime was my lullaby.

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Rainbow Rowell

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#13. Slow motion gets you there faster.

Hoagy Carmichael

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Masashi Kishimoto

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

Lynsey Addario

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

Hoagy Carmichael

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Herman Melville