Josh Dun Quotes
It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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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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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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I write in the studio.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.
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I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.
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I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky.
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Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
