Stephen Malkmus Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones -
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
Kabir Bedi -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
I like to argue with the radio.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
Hannah Simone -
I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
Paget Brewster
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville -
Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
Sade Adu -
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly -
I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
Jackson Katz -
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.
Kat Graham -
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
Missy Elliott -
Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement