Top 50 Alex North Quotes (2024 Update)

Alex North Quote: “The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads. So he kept his hands busy and his mind occupied.”

1. “The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads. So he kept his hands busy and his mind occupied.”

Alex North Quote: “Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt.”

2. “Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt.”

Alex North Quote: “My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.”

3. “My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.”

Alex North Quote: “I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.”

4. “I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.”

Alex North Quote: “Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.”

5. “Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.”

Alex North Quote: “Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.”

6. “Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.”

Alex North Quote: “The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don’t have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the ’60s and ’70s.”

7. “The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don’t have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the ’60s and ’70s.”

Alex North Quote: “When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.”

8. “When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.”

Alex North Quote: “There were good memories here too. Moments that, looking back on them objectively, had been filled with light. The problem was that what happened later cast such a shadow they were hard to see.”

9. “There were good memories here too. Moments that, looking back on them objectively, had been filled with light. The problem was that what happened later cast such a shadow they were hard to see.”

Alex North Quote: “Tomorrow is always a new day, but there’s never any reason to think it will be a better one.”

10. “Tomorrow is always a new day, but there’s never any reason to think it will be a better one.”

Alex North Quote: “The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads.”

11. “The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads.”

Alex North Quote: “Those woods had always seemed alive and dangerous to me. The deeper you went, the more it began to feel as though you were actually staying still – that the illusion of movement was caused by the land rearranging itself around you, like the squares on a chessboard shifting around the pieces.”

12. “Those woods had always seemed alive and dangerous to me. The deeper you went, the more it began to feel as though you were actually staying still – that the illusion of movement was caused by the land rearranging itself around you, like the squares on a chessboard shifting around the pieces.”

Alex North Quote: “It was like a candle flame that I wanted to cup with my hands, blow on gently, and bring to brighter life. But, of course, there was always a danger when you did that. Always a risk you would make it go out instead.”

13. “It was like a candle flame that I wanted to cup with my hands, blow on gently, and bring to brighter life. But, of course, there was always a danger when you did that. Always a risk you would make it go out instead.”

Alex North Quote: “The world was full of bad men. Full of bad dreams that didn’t always happen when you were asleep.”

14. “The world was full of bad men. Full of bad dreams that didn’t always happen when you were asleep.”

Alex North Quote: “Jenny had been my first love, and when you’re young you cling to that long past the point when you know it should be over. You know you need to let each other go, but it’s so sad and difficult, and so you don’t until you have to. Until the hurt of keeping someone outweighs the hurt of losing them.”

15. “Jenny had been my first love, and when you’re young you cling to that long past the point when you know it should be over. You know you need to let each other go, but it’s so sad and difficult, and so you don’t until you have to. Until the hurt of keeping someone outweighs the hurt of losing them.”

Alex North Quote: “You know you need to let each other go, but it’s so sad and difficult, and so you don’t until you have to. Until the hurt of keeping someone outweighs the hurt of losing them.”

16. “You know you need to let each other go, but it’s so sad and difficult, and so you don’t until you have to. Until the hurt of keeping someone outweighs the hurt of losing them.”

Alex North Quote: “When there was something awful that had to be faced, it was better to face it immediately; as bad as the event might be, it would occur regardless, and at least that way you wouldn’t have to endure the anticipation as well.”

17. “When there was something awful that had to be faced, it was better to face it immediately; as bad as the event might be, it would occur regardless, and at least that way you wouldn’t have to endure the anticipation as well.”

Alex North Quote: “It was an attempt to make an impact on a world that seemed so oblivious to his existence. It stemmed from a desire to be seen. To be noticed. To be loved. Because that was all any child wanted, deep down.”

18. “It was an attempt to make an impact on a world that seemed so oblivious to his existence. It stemmed from a desire to be seen. To be noticed. To be loved. Because that was all any child wanted, deep down.”

Alex North Quote: “It always comes back to me for you, doesn’t it? It always ends where it starts.”

19. “It always comes back to me for you, doesn’t it? It always ends where it starts.”

Alex North Quote: “Sometimes people want things to be more complicated than they really are.”

20. “Sometimes people want things to be more complicated than they really are.”

Alex North Quote: “Because sometimes really bad things happen to us, and we don’t like to think about them, so they get buried really deep in our heads.”

21. “Because sometimes really bad things happen to us, and we don’t like to think about them, so they get buried really deep in our heads.”

Alex North Quote: “Guilt. Fear. Anger. Once loose, any one of them would charge off, dragging the others along like dogs chained in a pack. And that was no good at all.”

22. “Guilt. Fear. Anger. Once loose, any one of them would charge off, dragging the others along like dogs chained in a pack. And that was no good at all.”

Alex North Quote: “Perhaps life was just a matter of doing what you thought was best at the time and then living with the consequences as best you could afterward.”

23. “Perhaps life was just a matter of doing what you thought was best at the time and then living with the consequences as best you could afterward.”

Alex North Quote: “But he could read the whole book of his father now and he knew that none of it had ever been about him. His own book was separate, and always had been. He had only ever needed to be himself, and it had just taken time – too much time – to understand that.”

24. “But he could read the whole book of his father now and he knew that none of it had ever been about him. His own book was separate, and always had been. He had only ever needed to be himself, and it had just taken time – too much time – to understand that.”

Alex North Quote: “The butterflies didn’t have a choice, after all. That’s what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.”

25. “The butterflies didn’t have a choice, after all. That’s what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.”

Alex North Quote: “Battles often make more sense from the sky.”

26. “Battles often make more sense from the sky.”

Alex North Quote: “There were always so many reasons to drink, though. Only ever one real reason not to.”

27. “There were always so many reasons to drink, though. Only ever one real reason not to.”

Alex North Quote: “That’s what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.”

28. “That’s what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.”

Alex North Quote: “If everyone could see God, how many people would bother going to church?”

29. “If everyone could see God, how many people would bother going to church?”

Alex North Quote: “And just as our dreams are shaped by our reality, there are times like these when our lives can be changed by the dreams we’ve had.”

30. “And just as our dreams are shaped by our reality, there are times like these when our lives can be changed by the dreams we’ve had.”

Alex North Quote: “Yes. That’s a sensible way of looking at it. People worry too much about the nature of things. Sometimes it’s better just to go with them.”

31. “Yes. That’s a sensible way of looking at it. People worry too much about the nature of things. Sometimes it’s better just to go with them.”

Alex North Quote: “I liked it when people were impressed with my son; it made me feel proud of him. Stupid to think that way, of course – he was a person in his own right, not some accomplishment of mine – but the feeling was always there, and, if anything, with my father it was stronger than usual. I wasn’t sure why.”

32. “I liked it when people were impressed with my son; it made me feel proud of him. Stupid to think that way, of course – he was a person in his own right, not some accomplishment of mine – but the feeling was always there, and, if anything, with my father it was stronger than usual. I wasn’t sure why.”

Alex North Quote: “I felt the book was important to her, and I had determined there and then to take care of it. If it was in danger of falling apart, then it wasn’t going to happen on my watch. And I supposed I had done that.”

33. “I felt the book was important to her, and I had determined there and then to take care of it. If it was in danger of falling apart, then it wasn’t going to happen on my watch. And I supposed I had done that.”

Alex North Quote: “The only ghosts that existed were in your head. They spoke through you, not to you.”

34. “The only ghosts that existed were in your head. They spoke through you, not to you.”

Alex North Quote: “There were as many paths out of hell as there were people, and the vast majority of them ascended.”

35. “There were as many paths out of hell as there were people, and the vast majority of them ascended.”

Alex North Quote: “That was the thing about going to sleep. It kind of scrubbed things. Arguments, worries, whatever. You could be scared or upset about something, and you might think sleep was impossible, but at some point it happened, and when you woke up in the morning the feeling was gone for awhile, like a storm passed during the night.”

36. “That was the thing about going to sleep. It kind of scrubbed things. Arguments, worries, whatever. You could be scared or upset about something, and you might think sleep was impossible, but at some point it happened, and when you woke up in the morning the feeling was gone for awhile, like a storm passed during the night.”

Alex North Quote: “People together, as people should be. He felt a degree of loneliness at that, but you could find pleasure where you looked for it, even in as solitary a life as his.”

37. “People together, as people should be. He felt a degree of loneliness at that, but you could find pleasure where you looked for it, even in as solitary a life as his.”

Alex North Quote: “That thought was so much better. It was the difference between regret and relief, between a cold hearth full of dead, gray ash and a fire that was still alight.”

38. “That thought was so much better. It was the difference between regret and relief, between a cold hearth full of dead, gray ash and a fire that was still alight.”

Alex North Quote: “Absence of evidence was not evidence of absence.”

39. “Absence of evidence was not evidence of absence.”

Alex North Quote: “And while she was sad to see me leave, I think she was also happy that I was heading out into the world, escaping the past and moving forward into a different present without even glancing behind me. Because, however painful it might be, that’s what all good parents have to do in the end.”

40. “And while she was sad to see me leave, I think she was also happy that I was heading out into the world, escaping the past and moving forward into a different present without even glancing behind me. Because, however painful it might be, that’s what all good parents have to do in the end.”

Alex North Quote: “The fact that people die, and after a short amount of time only objects remain, the bones little more than a scattering of possessions abandoned where they fall.”

41. “The fact that people die, and after a short amount of time only objects remain, the bones little more than a scattering of possessions abandoned where they fall.”

Alex North Quote: “Graveyards might have housed the dead below the ground, but what lay above was always for the living; they were the places where people came to deal with the break between what their lives had once been and what they now were. All the times she had come here, she had only really been visiting herself, and her relationship with the past.”

42. “Graveyards might have housed the dead below the ground, but what lay above was always for the living; they were the places where people came to deal with the break between what their lives had once been and what they now were. All the times she had come here, she had only really been visiting herself, and her relationship with the past.”

Alex North Quote: “In a war, you used any weapon at hand to win an individual battle, and then you regrouped and fought the next one. And the next. All all the ones that followed.”

43. “In a war, you used any weapon at hand to win an individual battle, and then you regrouped and fought the next one. And the next. All all the ones that followed.”

Alex North Quote: “It was a daunting prospect, because it was all such a jumble, and there was also so much I didn’t know and perhaps never would. But then again, I wasn’t sure that in itself was a problem. The truth of something can be in the feeling of it as much as the fact.”

44. “It was a daunting prospect, because it was all such a jumble, and there was also so much I didn’t know and perhaps never would. But then again, I wasn’t sure that in itself was a problem. The truth of something can be in the feeling of it as much as the fact.”

Alex North Quote: “Outside, I clicked the padlock back in place, sealing the butterflies within. It seemed remarkable that they’d survived in there for so long in such fruitless and insubstantial conditions. But as I walked back up the drive to the front of the house, I thought about Jake and me, and I realized that was just what happens. The butterflies didn’t have a choice, after all. That’s what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.”

45. “Outside, I clicked the padlock back in place, sealing the butterflies within. It seemed remarkable that they’d survived in there for so long in such fruitless and insubstantial conditions. But as I walked back up the drive to the front of the house, I thought about Jake and me, and I realized that was just what happens. The butterflies didn’t have a choice, after all. That’s what things do. Even in the toughest of circumstances, they keep living.”

Alex North Quote: “While it might be true that we still loved each other when we argued, it didn’t mean that we loved ourselves.”

46. “While it might be true that we still loved each other when we argued, it didn’t mean that we loved ourselves.”

Alex North Quote: “Courage is not the absence of fear, Pete knew. Courage requires fear.”

47. “Courage is not the absence of fear, Pete knew. Courage requires fear.”

Alex North Quote: “It occurred to me that, when my mother died, I would be all that was left of a family I hadn’t known, and for a moment all my adult confidence evaporated and I was left feeling lost and unmoored.”

48. “It occurred to me that, when my mother died, I would be all that was left of a family I hadn’t known, and for a moment all my adult confidence evaporated and I was left feeling lost and unmoored.”

Alex North Quote: “Asking why was like diving into a black hole. The deeper you went, the less light you found.”

49. “Asking why was like diving into a black hole. The deeper you went, the less light you found.”

Alex North Quote: “He had loved her as deeply as she loved him, but the gift and receipt of love was a language.”

50. “He had loved her as deeply as she loved him, but the gift and receipt of love was a language.”

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