Fleeting Ideas Quotes

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...