Quotes About Simplicity

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.

I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

People really do want simpler, cleaner food, but this isn't about marketing, it's about delivering.

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.

I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

I'm totally sick of hotels. I'm totally sick of room service. I'm totally sick of how can I help you ma'am? I just want to go home and wash some dishes, play with my cat, watch some TV.

People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn't want to but I did.