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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.
writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing admiration admire
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. E. B. White
writing numbers knows
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers Dustin Diamond
writing attention bass
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
writing different truth-is
The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that. Drew Goddard
writing eight years
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. Douglas Kennedy
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 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
play water flow
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.