William Watson Quotes
Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.
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I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
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Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
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A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
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Such a price The Gods exact for song; To become what we sing.
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Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.
