Counterparts Quote by Phil Elvrum Download Open image “I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.” — Phil Elvrum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Counterparts Mind Music Psychology Song Visuals Writing Written
I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would… — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
As I'm writing a song, I focus on the music and try not to let my mind wander too much, but if I do… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first… — Bjork Copy Share Image
When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more… — Lady G Copy Share Image
It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our songs. — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day,… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!" — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter. — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't kill a spider now, I'd probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days.… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot.… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they… — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image