Compilation Quotes:

Creativity is a compilation of things we've seen.

- Brian Wong

source: "10 Smart Quotes From ‘Innovation Uncensored’ Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

topic: Smart, Creativity, Compilation

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Song, Want, Sound, Compilation

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Dream, Thinking, Different, Personal Interest, Compilation

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

- Yannis Philippakis

topic: School, Inspired, Good God, Compilation

Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

- Sharan Burrow

topic: Challenges, Important, World, Compilation, Illustrating

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

- Eric Clapton

topic: Mean, America, People, Compilation, Mean People

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

- Edgar Winter

topic: Girl, Song, Rivers, Compilation

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

- Bill Haywood

source: Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”

topic: Fables, Christianity, Nonsense, Compilation

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

- Rexford Tugwell

topic: Maturity, Ideas, Legislation, Hoover, Compilation

As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did it and what they did, and who is responsible for this. These pictures do not answer the questions I have just posed. There is an opinion that it's a compilation by these very rebels, who are connected with al-Qaida and who were always distinguished by exceptional brutality.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Children, Gay, Rebel, Compilation

The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word 'inquisitorial' bears the burden of historical unpopularity.

- Edward Jenks

source: Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

topic: Country, Book, Historical, Compilation

Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Song, Opportunity, Facts, Large Companies, Compilation

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: People, Age, Youth, Compilation, Age Of 20

I think my favourite memory from filming 'Jurassic World' would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels, and just how absurd that really was. That that actually happened.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

source: Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

topic: Running, Memories, Thinking, Compilation

I went back into the older stories and reworked them, because I became a better writer over the years and could spot flaws. I loved having another chance to make them stronger, and to bring them closer to me, made them less like a greatest hits compilation, and more like something written in the same extended burst.

- Tom Barbash

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Years, Stronger, Another Chance, Compilation

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

- Camryn Manheim

topic: Hate, Character, Play, Compilation, Things I Hate

If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year. I had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can’t wait to be back!

- Chrissy Teigen

source: "Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen to Host 2015 Billboard Music Awards" by Joe Lynch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.

topic: Music, Fun, Artist, Compilation

Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?

- Errol Morris

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Interesting, Allies, Dachau, Compilation, Nuremberg

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.

- Flying Lotus

source: "Flying Lotus Talks New LP, Lil Wayne". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. January 14, 2010.

topic: Rapper, Albums, Records, Compilation

Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.

- Simon Conway Morris

topic: Two, Example, Details, Structure And Function, Predictability

Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Book, Snowboarding, Doe, Compilation

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story greater than the sum of its parts.

- Brendan Fletcher

source: "Meet the 2011 Sundance Filmmakers | “Mad Bastards” Director Brendan Fletcher". www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2011.

topic: Photography, Writing, Skills, Compilation

I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

- Teju Cole

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Grateful, Book, Speech, Coetzee, Compilation

Dennis McCurdy's Find A Way is a straightforward compilation of suggestions that will simplify your life and set you on the path toward success. The book has the feel of a friendly neighbor sharing the secrets that enabled him to win in life. This is an easy read that pays big dividends. I enjoyed it and highly recommend Find A Way to anyone seeking motivation.

- Tolly Burkan

topic: Motivation, Book, Winning, Compilation

The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these compilations - "Me over this guy" It sounds good individually, but the art of the record is something that is lost. It gets to the point where it's just vocalists and producers coming in and piecing things together.

- El-P

topic: Art, Self, Guy, Compilation, Vocalist

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

- Pink

topic: Records, Permission, Found, Compilation

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.570, Best Books on

topic: Government, Democracy, United States, Compilation, Constitution Of The United States

The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three-body, mind, and heart- that we find spirit. ... Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's armor. It cannot be broken, and it cannot be taken away.

- R. A. Salvatore

source: R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.224, Wizards of the Coast

topic: Mother, Determination, Taken, Strength And Determination, Compilation

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you've got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Age, Might, Killers, Notches, Compilation

It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

- David Nicholls

topic: Song, Falling In Love, Book, Brecht, Compilation

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

- David Nicholls

source: David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.23, Hachette UK

topic: Energy, Tape, Letters, Compilation

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

- Patty Griffin

topic: Singing, Happy Day, Staples, Gospel Music, Compilation

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

- Michael Musto

topic: Book, Years, Ideas, Staples, Compilation

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

- Jackie DeShannon

topic: Song, Believe, Fall, Compilation, New Songs

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

- Jhonen Vasquez

topic: Book, Moments, Slave, Compilation, Slave Labor

I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.

- Christy Carlson Romano

topic: Song, Princess, Thinking, Compilation, Princess Diaries

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

topic: Art, Recovery, Perfect, Compilation, Human Imperfection

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.

- Andrew Dost

topic: Dad, Mean, Mind, Compilation, Fifth Grade

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

- Joni Mitchell

topic: Song, War, Creativity, Compilation, Coverage