Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.

Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz

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• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  

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• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

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• I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

  

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• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

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• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

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• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

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• I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

  

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• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.

  

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• One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

  

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  • People
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• It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.

  

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  • Movie
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• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

  

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• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

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• 'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

  

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• The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Listening