Doing Quotes
18095 quotes by 9431 authors
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We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer,…
— Andy Wilkinson
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I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a…
— Andy Wilkinson
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which…
— Robbie Robertson
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Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried…
— Guy Clark
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Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.
— Jimmy Webb
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When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school.…
— Eugene Levy
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Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song…
— Lou Reed
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Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other…
— Kevin Alexander
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Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing…
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs…
— Ani DiFranco
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We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for…
— Lance Burton
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The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has…
— Henry Harrower
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I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes…
— Nicholas Stern
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You…
— Annie Lennox
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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work.…
— Nick Cave
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I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied…
— George Fawcett
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You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All…
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I've been doing the Fonda workout: the Peter Fonda workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go…
— Kevin Meaney
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I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been…
— John C. Danforth
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