Nyro Quotes

#1. I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

Paul Stanley

#2. I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

Alison Elliott

#3. She performed a few Bacharach songs next: "Close to You," "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," "Walk On By," plus Laura Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues.

Haruki Murakami

#4. My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

Jenny Lewis

#5. Thane leaned his chin into his palm, much the same way he had at his titling ceremony when he became a magician, looking every bit the part of bored.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#6. When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Dolly Parton

#7. Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

Laura Nyro

#8. An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

Johnny Carson

#9. As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Laura Nyro

#10. For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

#11. Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Laura Nyro

#12. Grover, the former sergeant, told me that "there was a running joke within the department: don't threaten suicide with officers, because they'll accelerate it.

Anonymous

#13. They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

Laura Nyro

#14. I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

John Marston

#15. My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

Laura Nyro

#16. I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Laura Nyro

#17. You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

Laura Nyro

#18. You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

Kim Basinger

#19. I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

Laura Nyro

#20. I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Laura Nyro

#21. I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Garrison Keillor

#22. Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. Nothing cures like time and love ...

Laura Nyro

#24. All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting ... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there ... I think of it as my serious playground.

Laura Nyro

#25. The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

William A. Henry III

#26. If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

Laura Nyro

#27. I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

Laura Nyro

#28. Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally ... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on ...

Laura Nyro

#29. When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing ... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual ...

Laura Nyro