Evan Dando Quotes

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

Evan Dando

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Believe
  • Torture
  • Limit

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Stories
  • Songs

• Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Dad
  • Songs
  • Really

• I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Write

• It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Things

• Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

  

  Adele
  • Songs
  • Wander
  • Coherent

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Songs
  • Audiences
  • Arrangements

• I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Hate
  • I Know

• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Done
  • Brain
  • Tears

• President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Freedom
  • Monday
  • U.S.

• I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people, especially gospel music programs. I had become alert to the necessity of creating song titles, themes, and plots, and frequently people would call me and say, 'Turn your radio on, Albert, they're singing one of your songs on such-and-such a station.' It finally dawned on me to use their quote, 'Turn your radio on,' as a theme for a religious originated song, and this was the beginning of 'Turn Your Radio On' as we know it.

  

  Albert E. Brumley
  • Songs
  • Radio
  • Turn

• Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Girl
  • Songs
  • Tattoo

• Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself...

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Drug
  • Penalties

• It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Sky
  • Changes
  • Mystery

• I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Songs
  • I Know
  • Torture