Corby Quotes & Sayings

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything. — Matt Corby

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then. — Matt Corby

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it. — Matt Corby

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area. — Louise Mensch

Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring. The harpooner, a red-bearded Irishman, kept putting harpoons into the whale. The intestines were hanging out of the mangled body of the huge animal, and nevertheless it continued to swim back and forth in the water made red by its blood, trying with its shattered body to shield the little whale. Since then, and the sight of that harpooner's freckled face as he laughed derisively, and of that poor creature, faithful to the end, I have believed in the existence of Satan as I believe in the existence of God. — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance. — Gary Corby

Biological instincts are the key to understanding how every single human being is wired. The marvelous interplay of various brain circuits creates our instinctual reality of the daily life. If you're conscious about the fact that there lies a complex yet vividly beautiful brain circuit mechanism behind every single impulse of your daily emotions, then you can choose how to react upon each of those impulses. You can thus program your behavioral response in a certain situation. — Abhijit Naskar

Back in the days when gladiators hacked away at each other, there was always the man who decided whether the defeated should live or die. The job is usually given to the Emperor in movies, but in fact any senior man could have been the designated thumbs-up-thumbs-down guy.
The official title for this fellow was ... the editor. (evil laughter in background) — Gary Corby

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do? — Matt Corby

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do. — Matt Corby

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself. — C.S. Lewis

Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking. — Oswald Chambers

Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The Gods hate hubris in a man almost more than any trait. Remember the boastful words of Odysseus to Poseidon after the fall of Troy? He paid for it with ten years of his life, and the lives of all his men. Retract your boast before something bad happens! — Gary Corby

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. — Eric Gill

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but ... — Malorie Blackman

Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had — Robert Galbraith

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. — Henry Taylor

You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things. — Matt Corby

Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own. — Matt Corby

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy. — Matt Corby

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it. — Joan Armatrading

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first. — Matt Corby

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened. — Sarah Addison Allen

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine. — Matt Corby

If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist. — Matt Corby

A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud. — Gary Corby

[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure. — Gary Corby

It is difficult to process the sacred masculine when your closest example has been a man smacking you around, verbally degrading you, lording over you, or otherwise proving a poor demonstration of the use of strength. — Thomm Quackenbush

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. — Brian Corby

A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth. — Matt Corby

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it. — Matt Corby

So, reader, should you ever find yourself writing about the world, take care not to nibble at the many tempting symbols she sets squarely in your path, or you'll be baited into saying things you don't really mean, and offending the people you want most to entertain. Develop, if you can, the technique of the pall bearers and myself: smile, to be sure
for fucking dogs are truly funny
but walk on and say nothing, as though you hadn't noticed. — John Barth

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful. — Matt Corby

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks. — John Burnside

If you're Microsoft, you can prevent a porn site using microsoft.xxx. Although that would be ironic since micro and soft probably aren't at the forefront of desirable concepts when you're looking for porn. — Gary Corby

But her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going. — J.R. Ward

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill — H.A. Corby

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people. — Matt Corby

Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters. — Rod Stryker

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it. — Matt Corby