Direct Quote by David Longstreth Download Open image “A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.” — David Longstreth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Direct Feel Might Newspaper Song
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about. — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it… — Radney Foster Copy Share Image
You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
I think, for Solange, it was important to make a super-strong direct statement with 'A Seat at the Table,' and she thought 'Cool Your… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
What genres are good for is being like, 'Here are the parameters. Here's something about the way it's going to make you feel. And… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
At the end of the touring on Bitte, looking back on all that stuff, I feel really proud of having written that music and… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
