Theme Quotes

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.
Tom Glazer

Women, Great, Men

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
Rian Johnson

Emotional, Idea, Favorite

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
Ken Jennings

Alone, Movies, Poetry

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Isaac Mayer Wise

Best, Support, Bible

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
Tracy Chapman

Trying, Between, Everyone

Love's a recurring theme through my work.
Tracy Chapman

Love, Work, Through

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
John Lasseter

Joy, Films, Characters

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar

Music, Deep, Ambition

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
An Wang

Technology, Find, Same

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
Richard Holbrooke

Jazz, Diplomacy, Endless

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
Carson McCullers

Love, Freedom, Wonderful

The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.
April Winchell

Anyone, Party, Asked

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
Martin Fleischmann

Songs, Test, Tube

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
Agnes Martin

Truth, Experience, May

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.
Tom Cochrane

Music, Thought, Deserve

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.
Ann Wilson

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
Moby

Good, Felt, Original

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
Emily Giffin

Life, Society, Making

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer

Music, Nature, True

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
Norman Lamm

Religion, Important, Single

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.
Ron Ben-Israel

Wedding, Today, Special

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
Mike McCready

Design, Focus, Used

When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
Allison Williams

Music, Men, Business

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
Adam Arkin

Good, Movies, Place

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
Mary Stuart Masterson

Work, Human, Passion

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'
Agnetha Faltskog

Big, Film, Sing

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.
Joel Hodgson

Friend, Song, Story

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
Fay Godwin

Work, Made, After

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
Trevor Rabin

Movies, Dark, Wanted

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
Andy Milonakis

Kids, Song, Walk

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