The great discoveries are usually obvious.
Phil Crosby

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
June Jordan

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
Bjorn Lomborg

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
Henry A. Wallace

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
Michael Schudson

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
William Kingdon Clifford

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
Jessica Lynch

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
Bobby McFerrin

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
John Philip Sousa

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle