Theme Quotes

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.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

I really love writing themes and melody.

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

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.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

Small minds can never handle great themes.

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.