James Maslow Quotes
I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
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Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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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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Bill Ward, when you hear his beats, he's not just playing a straight 4/4 beat; he's doing almost a hip-hop beat. There's a song called 'Sweet Leaf.' The drum beat that he's playing, he's trying to kind of swing and funkify it. Now, is he doing a great job of it? Maybe not. Maybe.
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Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
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If you don't go overboard, it's just a fun game to sit and play. I usually set a $20 limit. Once I lose that, I'm done.
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American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.
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Cherish the people you love, because you never know when Allah will take them back.
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I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
