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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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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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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The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.
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But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1
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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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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
