Hayley Orrantia Quotes
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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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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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
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I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
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The song of canariesNever varies,And when they're moultingThey're pretty revolting.
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They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
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All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.
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A rhyme doesn't make a song.
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The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?
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Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
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I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.
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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
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People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.
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When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
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Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.
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When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling.
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People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.
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I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
