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Valerie June I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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Alan Cohen I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.
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Alan Cohen In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.
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Alan Cohen I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.
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Sammy Cahn I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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Neil Innes But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.
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Barack Obama Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
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Anna Chlumsky There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!
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Liam Gallagher I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head
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Banksy If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
firsts debt pay
Mark Cuban Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.
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Ludwig von Mises The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
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E. F. Schumacher I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
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Robert Kiyosaki Don't invest in what you don't know. Learn first then invest.
firsts cry enough
William Shakespeare Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!
firsts taught should
William Shakespeare I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
firsts counseling offense
Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
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Chris Frantz I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
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Dev Hynes The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, 'I wonder if I can do that,' and it was all very personal. It was more that once I'd finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.
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Brian Eno Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
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Trent Reznor Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
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Scott Weiland When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.
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Liam Gallagher My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.
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Kailash Kher I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Mike Love The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.