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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of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
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The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
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Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.
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I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.
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You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
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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.
