Jessi Colter famous quotes

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
-- Jessi Colter

#Friendship #Writing #Piano

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.
-- Jessi Colter

#Guy #Missing #Hats

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
-- Jessi Colter

#Writing #Hymns #Piano

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.
-- Jessi Colter

#Names #Infidelity #Adultery

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
-- Jessi Colter

#Creating #Giving #Ends

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
-- Jessi Colter

#Thinking #Depth #Relation

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.
-- Jessi Colter

#Mother #Evangelism #Force

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.