Scott Weiland Quotes
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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I just write mechanical things.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.
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It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
