Jeff Bridges Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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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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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.
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The worst thing a girl could do on a date is fart louder than me.
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I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
