Kurt Vile Quotes
It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.
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In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.
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I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
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Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
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Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.
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It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.
