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song writing trying
I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life. Amy Winehouse
song white zeppelins
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
song writing feel-better
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
song girlfriend writing
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
song together stuff
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
song children men
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace? Alexander Pope
song snakes lasts
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
song writing perfection
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece. Alex Turner
song writing waiting
Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
play age entertainment
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion. Aldous Huxley
play mouths
Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut Albert Einstein
play research highest
Play is the highest from of research.
play ideas feelings
Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.
play keeping-your-mouth-shut mouths
X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
play stage conventional
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
play games tampa
We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa, Alexander Ovechkin
play people giving
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. Alexander McCall Smith
guitar love music playing week within
I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it. Robby Benson
guitar piano new-orleans
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar. Dr. John
guitar compare expensive
The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something. Merle Haggard
guitar people personality
I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar. Martha Wainwright
guitar machines stuff
Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come. Mark Ronson
guitar ideas interesting
I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing. M. Ward
guitar trying harmony
It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
guitar years
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old. Mac Miller
guitar way young
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living Lyle Lovett