Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Nilsson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Harry Nilsson.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Harry Edward Nilsson III, sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a 3+1⁄2 octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours.

American - Musician | June 15, 1941 - January 15, 1994

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I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'

Harry Nilsson

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

Harry Nilsson

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

Harry Nilsson

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

Harry Nilsson

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Harry Nilsson

Go where the weather suits your clothes.

Harry Nilsson

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

Harry Nilsson

It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.

Harry Nilsson

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

Harry Nilsson

It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.

Harry Nilsson

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true.

Harry Nilsson

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".

Harry Nilsson

I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul.” She asked him: “Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?”, and he said: “Because I love Paul.

Harry Nilsson

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Nilsson

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