#tryin

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#every #i #i think #music #own

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#definitely #free #freely #i #level

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before. ↗

— Phil Collins

#areas #bad #become #been #before

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer. ↗

— Sean Connery

#bit #day #even #every #every day

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#actually #focus #hard #i #i think

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#eternally #i #person #rocking #trying

For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you're trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you're just on a roller coaster. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#day #down #emotionally #event #go

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#create #doing #easier #hit #keep

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh. ↗

— John Cleese

#group #i #i think #just #laugh