#nut

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#even #everything #given #i #i do

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#arrange #bother #ends #entity #film

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing. ↗

— Colin Hay

#away #been #doing #dust #famous

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#nuts #poor #rich #something #stupid

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#efforts #hours #how #lets #minutes

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent. ↗

— Don Hewitt

#categorically #cent #did #i #i can

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#beginning #civilization #communication #each #enabled

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. ↗

— James Hillman

#drop #happiness #happy #here #i

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21. ↗

— William Holden

#i #minute #month #one minute #rather