Malachy McCourt Quotes
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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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.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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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'.
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I was a really big kid.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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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.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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India is my kid sister.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.
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Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
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What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
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Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
