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.
Damian Lewis -
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt -
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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
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.
Kara DioGuardi -
I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
Kate Smith -
I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
Wayne Coyne -
I write slowly.
Yann Martel -
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.
Flula Borg -
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.
Colbie Caillat -
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.
Bonnie McKee -
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.
Donald Dunn
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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.
Chris Lane -
'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.
Kevin Morby -
I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.
Kevin Morby -
'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I'd rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.
Rakim Hasheem Allen -
Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.
Jerry Jeff Walker -
With Martha Stewart, the power of the brand, the power of television, taught me that if you can marry all those ingredients - like you marry a great song with a great artist - and get the right television exposure, then you've got something that really is going to be sustainable. You can expand and blow up.
Charles Koppelman
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If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
Jewel Kilcher -
As a tool for the activation of specific thoughts, music is as good as language. The combination of the two-as best exemplified in the love song-is the best courtship of all.
Daniel Levitin -
I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
Dan Jenkins -
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world - and I'm one of those optimists - but women aren't a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We're awesome but not perfect. We're human. Just like men.
Marjorie Liu -
Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Sharon Jones