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 don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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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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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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.
