Ideas Quotes

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

When I was 17, all the cultural ideas that I was sold were about the future.

I had a lot of ideas bursting to get out and there were a lot of musical territories I wanted to explore which I really couldn't do within Queen.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the '60s. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

The biggest mistake Yoko and I made... was allowing ourselves to become influenced by the male-macho 'serious revolutionaries,' and their insane ideas about killing people to save them from capitalism and/or communism (depending on your point of view). We should have stuck to our own way of working for peace: bed-ins, billboards, etc.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.