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Inspiration comes from everywhere

As a songwriter, I constantly find myself questioning whether or not what I’ve created is original. Then I remember what one of my favorite film directors, Jim Jarmusch said…

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Jarmusch is ascribed as having instigated the American independent film movement with Stranger Than Paradise.[30] Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have “permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form”.[5] The success of the film accorded the director a certain iconic status within arthouse cinema, as an idiosyncratic and uncompromising auteur exuding the aura of urban cool embodied by downtown Manhattan.[48][49] Such perceptions were compounded with the release of his subsequent features in the late 1980s, establishing him as one of the generation’s most prominent and influential independent filmmakers.[50][51] In a 1989 review of his work, Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Jarmusch “the most adventurous and arresting film maker to surface in the American cinema in this decade”.[32]

- via Wikipedia

Not-So-Well-Known Cliches…

One of the keys to success in writing lyrics for me is to twist well-known ideas and cliches and “make them my own” so to speak. A few of these never made the cut, but they’re worth a quick look! Feel free to show them to your trite friends!

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“If at first you don’t succeed… get a new group of friends and just pretend you did.”

“A bird in the hand… could carry many diseases. WASH YOUR HANDS!”

“A penny saved… is completely worthless if it don’t come with millions of brothers, and even THEN you probably only have a few thousand dollars, so dont go pissin’ your pants over it.”

“Stop, drop… and scream, ‘HOLY FUCKING SHIT I’M BURNING ALIVE!”

“A day without sunshine… is like… pretty fuckin’ dark.”

“An apple a day… could kill you with all the pesticides nowadays.”

“If you can’t beat ‘em… shoot ‘em.”

“You can’t teach an old dog…” (That’s it… you just can’t. They get to a certain point and they either stop listening or just lose their hearing.)

“One man’s garbage… CONSISTENTLY ENDS UP ON MY FUCKING DOORSTEP!”

“A rolling stone… died yesterday I think.”

“Where there is smoke… there’s some huge bear with a hat beating the living shit out of some pyromaniac kid.”

“When life hands you lemons… squeeze the juice into a watergun and squirt people in the eyes.”

“Money is… totally cool.”

“The best thing since… internet porn!”

“If you can’t stand the heat… take off your clothes.”

“Don’t bite the hand… of the Queen Of England.”

“Even a blind squirrel… gets a little action from time to time, even if it is his sister and he doesn’t know it.”

“The grass is always greener… when it’s chemically engineered by scientists who can tamper with chloroplast levels thereby making it possible to attain optimal shades of green.”

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