(75 quotes found)
“Spontaneous laughter's unstoppable”
Toba Beta
“It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.”
Donal Henahan
“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”
Edward Abbey
“Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.”
Billy Joel
“You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.”
Maurice Ravel
“It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.”
Lisa Kudrow
“The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.”
Matthew Arnold
“let go' for i am ready to see life at its fullest and live to the best of myself, and for that reason i am now spontaneous,happy and feel whole.”
nicole gilbert
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists! [People] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.”
Keanu Reeves
