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song thinking people
I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs. Corey Smith
song writing thinking
When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.
song struggle writing
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
song struggle people
When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.
song trying honest
I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.
song writing worry
I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.
song writing giving
The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.
song couple play
I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too. Corey Haim
song character thinking
When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it. Corey Taylor
artist sitting sage
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Charles Bukowski
artist careers damage
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. Ron Silver
artist nerd chance
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process. Susan Sarandon
artist care defeat
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us. Susan Glaspell
artist parent honor
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could. Sufjan Stevens
artist self jazz
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Studs Terkel
artist great-art great-artist
a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ... Stevie Smith
artist talking law
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that. Stevie Wonder
artist play exciting
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
hands looks remakes
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison
hands guy fists
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. Ricardo Montalban
hands wounds-and-scars choices
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns. Lois McMaster Bujold
hands years land
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. Lord Byron
hands glory hand-in-hand
Glory and gore go hand in hand. Lorde
hands numbers long
Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers. Fred Thompson
hands people opinion
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand. Jimmy Carter
hands giving insecurity
He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are. James Patterson
hands vegetables oil
I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Emeril Lagasse