Top 100 Lovett Quotes
#1. I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.
James Badge Dale
#2. They all deserve to die.
Even you, Mrs. Lovett
Even I.
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death would be relief.
Stephen Sondheim
#3. I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.
Josh Gad
#4. Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
P. J. O'Rourke
#5. Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.
Lyle Lovett
#6. As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.
Lyle Lovett
#7. A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
Ben Lovett
#8. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
Lyle Lovett
#9. There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.
Lyle Lovett
#10. AS A CHILD, I had an unquenchable thirst for novels," said Jane,
Charlie Lovett
#11. A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Ben Lovett
#12. She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman.
Charlie Lovett
#13. When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.
Lyle Lovett
#14. I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.
Ben Lovett
#15. I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.
Lyle Lovett
#16. The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
Lyle Lovett
#17. I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
Lyle Lovett
#18. A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed. If that doesn't get him here then he's not much of a knight in shining armor.
Charlie Lovett
#19. When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.
Ben Lovett
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Lovett F. Edwards
#21. That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.
Lyle Lovett
#22. Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
Lyle Lovett
#23. He only kissed her and she kissed him and her knees went weak and her heart raced and she thought for a moment that she saw fireworks.
Charlie Lovett
#24. I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
Lyle Lovett
#25. It was as if a part of her mind dwelt in him and a part of his mind dwelt in her, and when she was separated from him a part of herself was missing.
Charlie Lovett
#26. I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
Lyle Lovett
#27. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.
Lyle Lovett
#28. In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet.
Lyle Lovett
#29. It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
Lyle Lovett
#31. 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
Ben Lovett
#32. As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
Ben Lovett
#33. Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
Lyle Lovett
#34. 'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.
Ben Lovett
#35. The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.
Lyle Lovett
#37. Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
Lyle Lovett
#38. Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.
Lyle Lovett
#39. I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.
Lyle Lovett
#40. She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.
Lyle Lovett
#41. Stupid is forgivable, but ignorance is intolerable. The first is a birth defect, the second is a choice.
Lucee Lovett
#43. Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
Lyle Lovett
#44. If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever.
Lyle Lovett
#45. I married her just because she looks like you.
Lyle Lovett
#46. Anyway, a man who buys a woman a book this nice is looking to be more than just an acquaintance.
Charlie Lovett
#47. 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.
Ben Lovett
#48. Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.
Ben Lovett
#49. I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination.
Charlie Lovett
#50. That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost."
"It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis, and Peter knew in a second that it was his own.
Charlie Lovett
#51. It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.
Lyle Lovett
#52. The best way to learn about books, ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them.
Charlie Lovett
#53. My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing.
Lyle Lovett
#54. The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.
Stephanie Lovett Stoffel
#55. I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
Lyle Lovett
#56. Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.
Robert A. Lovett
#57. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
Sid Lovett
#58. I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
Lyle Lovett
#59. You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
Lyle Lovett
#60. I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
Lyle Lovett
#61. I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
Lyle Lovett
#62. When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.
Lyle Lovett
#63. What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.
Charlie Lovett
#64. I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
Lyle Lovett
#65. I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.
Lyle Lovett
#66. It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
Lyle Lovett
#67. What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.
Lyle Lovett
#68. The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
Ben Lovett
#69. If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger
Lyle Lovett
#70. Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.
Lyle Lovett
#71. But though that love was engraved on her heart, she did not have the words to explain its nature.
Charlie Lovett
#72. The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.
Lyle Lovett
#73. Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
Ben Lovett
#74. And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful.
Ben Lovett
#75. You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
Lyle Lovett
#76. A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.
Lyle Lovett
#77. Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.
Lyle Lovett
#78. My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
Lyle Lovett
#79. I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
Ben Lovett
#80. Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.
Lyle Lovett
#81. If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
Lyle Lovett
#82. I was always scared to meet people. Scared or maybe lazy.
Charlie Lovett
#83. You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.
Lyle Lovett
#84. There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
Ben Lovett
#85. Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
Lyle Lovett
#86. Like a subscription to a magazine, thought Peter. The period during which I am allowed to be happy has expired.
Charlie Lovett
#87. King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.
Charlie Lovett
#88. Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
Lyle Lovett
#89. To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.
Robert A. Lovett
#90. I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me.
Lyle Lovett
#91. 'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.
Ben Lovett
#92. Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.
Lyle Lovett
#93. Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.
Lyle Lovett
#95. Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
Lyle Lovett
#96. They did not speak of the future; they merely lived in the present. It was a perfect summer.
Charlie Lovett
#97. The ladies in my family have always known what to do in a roomful of rare books.
Charlie Lovett
#98. One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.
Lyle Lovett
#99. I get such a rush out of seeing other people doing well.
Ben Lovett
#100. Silver hidden in the gold,
Young man hidden in the old,
Laughing lord with weeping eyes,
Bring king and ring before sunrise!
-Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest
Margaret Lovett
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