#ear

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#already #been #consider #dead #had

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#bit #charles #going #good #hear

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#acoustic guitar #baltimore #be a man #been #blues

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#grateful #i #lord #loved #still

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#enjoy #going #heart #i #i think

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#actually #career #did #everyone #helps

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#fear #rejection #thing #work #worst

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#change #child #even #everybody #everything

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#different #different kinds #doing #i #i do