Attempt Quote by James Mercer Download Open image “My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.” — James Mercer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attempt Classic Doing Really Songwriting Sort Stuff
The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline. — James Blake Copy Share Image
I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at. — Sia Copy Share Image
My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere. — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
Even though I do a lot of songwriting, there's always other great material out there that you have to be aware of. — James Ingram Copy Share Image
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it. — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies. — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating is something… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I think that what's funny is that I seem to be taking up the roles that I remember my dad having - for some… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football. — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by… — James P. Moran Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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