Stifling Quotations

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

Without work all life goes rotten.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.