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After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. -- Stanley Clarke
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music. -- Joan Jett
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. -- Colin Powell
Polite conversation is rarely either. -- Fran Lebowitz
What you get free costs too much. -- Jean Anouilh
To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. -- Edgar Allan Poe
False hope is nicer than no hope at all. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A wise man hears one word and understands two. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. -- French Proverb
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt. -- William Lloyd Garrison
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. -- Garth Brooks
So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead. -- Seth Godin
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. -- J. Paul Getty
Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day. -- Nora Roberts
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. -- George W. Bush
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album -- Vanessa Carlton
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. -- Margery Williams
I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy. -- Daddy Yankee
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune. -- Kenneth Branagh
The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God. -- Katy Perry
You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy. -- Jacob Artist
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs. -- Russell Smith
Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. -- Steven Rattner
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. -- Jennifer Hudson
People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time. -- Kimbra
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be. -- Richard Dawkins
Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun. -- Lorde
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. -- Camille Paglia
Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.' -- Benny Blanco
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof. -- Greg Graffin
They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood. -- Jermaine Dupri
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album. -- Vanessa Carlton
Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day. -- John Cena
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff. -- Action Bronson
Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms. -- Peter Diamandis
I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm. -- Gayle King
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. -- Fred Upton
From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony. -- Juliana Hatfield
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard! -- Angel Olsen
By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not, -- Kurt Cobain
I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot. -- Hilary Duff
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' -- Beyonce Knowles
Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story. -- Galcher Lustwerk
When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot. -- Grimes
A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you. -- Tove Lo
I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning. -- Courtney Barnett
We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello. -- Chuck Comeau
I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it. -- James Bay
It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague. -- Heidi Cullinan
I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers. -- Perez Hilton
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery. -- Walter Darby Bannard
I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one." -- Maggie Stiefvater
Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook. -- SonReal

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