Jann Klose Quotes
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'
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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
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I just like to win basketball games. That’s what motivates me.
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Yellow's never been a good color for me, but it's actually grown on me. I like it more than I used to!
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You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
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Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
