Noodling Quotes

#1. I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Gene Ween

#2. Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

Jane Fonda

#3. Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.

Seth Shostak

#4. I would rather stop too soon than too late.

Luc Besson

#5. Only a true friend would try to get someone she cared about to become princess over herself.

Kiera Cass

#6. My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Amy Bloom

#7. Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

Neil Diamond

#8. To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

Manil Suri

#9. I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call from here, some other woman answered. "You sound older!"

Mitch Hedberg

#10. I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

Jemaine Clement

#11. It's better to burn out than fade away.

Kurt Cobain

#12. I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Michael Nesmith

#13. Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Gary Burton

#14. I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Britt Robertson

#15. Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Charles De Lint

#16. From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Marvin Hamlisch

#17. I heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by.

Timothy Hallinan

#18. I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#19. A characteristic of creative people is that they imagine making the impossible possible. That imagining - dreaming, noodling, audaciously rejecting what is (for the moment) true - is the way we discover what is new or important.

Ed Catmull