Quotes 61 till 80 of 92.
-
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
-
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
-
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
-
The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
-
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
-
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
-
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
-
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
-
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
-
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
-
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
-
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
-
There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
-
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
-
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
-
We covered Hey Jude. My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out Hey, Jew to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.
As quoted in The Best Book of Useless Information Ever -
We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.
-
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Stories for Children (1984) -
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
-
What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.
All singer-songwriter famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 4)
