Nyro's Quotes

#1. 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

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

Alison Elliott

#3. Ryan has this blank, way too innocent expression. "Don't worry, Mr. Risk. I'd love to help Elisabeth."
He turns to me and smiles. This smile isn't genuine or heartwarming, but cocky as hell.
Bring it, jock boy. Your best won't be good enough.

Katie McGarry

#4. I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Rebecca West

#5. 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

#6. No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Maria Mitchell

#7. I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

Mordechai Vanunu

#8. The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

Ice-T

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

Laura Nyro

#10. 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

#11. I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Muhammad Yunus

#12. Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Judith Clancy

#13. I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so ...

Jake Gyllenhaal

#14. I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

John McGahern

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Laura Nyro

#19. 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

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

Laura Nyro

#21. I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Barack Obama

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Laura Nyro

#25. 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

#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