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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.
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. Clay Shirky
past data make-sense
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? Clayton Christensen
past leader risk
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.
past illusion ability
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
past progress get-better
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
past ideas ease
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
past intuition
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.