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

• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• 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 love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • 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

• My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Advice
  • Songs
  • Girls

• 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

• I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • I Know
  • Troubled

• 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

• Songs are special. Songs are like trees. You plant these seeds and watch them grow, and you never know how people are going to respond. That's one of the most beautiful things about music.

  

  Isom Innis
  • Songs
  • Grow
  • Seeds

• The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Leadership
  • Fight
  • Movement

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• This meets the density, quality, cost structure and scalability needs of the diverse embedded market.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Needs
  • Cost
  • Diverse

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

  

  Evan Dando
  • Songs
  • I Know
  • Torture