Gary Cherone Quotes
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.Gary Cherone Van Halen
Quotes to Explore
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
Candace Bushnell -
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp -
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
Beck -
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Hannibal Buress -
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
Camille Paglia -
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
Barbara Kruger
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance -
The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
Aaron Paul -
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
Larry the Cable Guy -
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite -
Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet -
If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
Irwin Thomas -
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
RaeLynn -
One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
Abigail Washburn
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I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.
Delta Goodrem -
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
Clyde Tombaugh -
From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.
Kristy McNichol -
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
Andrew Bird -
Nothing is above the Constitution.
Joao Lourenco -
I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.
Gary Cherone Van Halen