Emma Stone Quotes
Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
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It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
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What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this marketing material deliver that information?
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They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans.
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Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
