Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.
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I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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I write slowly.
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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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I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.
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After struggling for so long in the industry and writing so many failed songs and hearing 'no' for so long - I'm so grateful every time I hear a song that I was a part of on the radio.
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If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
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'Fix' was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I'm really thankful for it.
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'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.
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I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
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I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.
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Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?
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Commerce is considered by classical economists to be a positive-sum game. The act of selling and buying always benefits both the seller and the buyer. It is unfortunate that popular culture has propagated the Marxist myth that one person gains in business at the expense of another, that capitalism is evil because it is a zero-sum game—somebody wins while someone else loses. When liberals make the argument that capitalism is the cause of all of our problems, they are either speaking out of abject ignorance or being totally disingenuous to protect their interests. We have not had true free-market capitalism in this country on any wide scale. Where we have had economic successes in this nation’s history, it has been those times when people have done something outside of the government’s involvement. Every time the federal government has been involved, it has created chaos, waste, and corruption.
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
