Richard Sherman Quotes

Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.

Richard Sherman

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
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  • Good
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• 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
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• I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

  

  M. Ward
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• 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
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• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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  • Song
  • Words

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
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• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Up
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• 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
  • America
  • Song
  • Sad

• I am a person who sings. I know not everyone is, but that won't keep the Spirit from putting a song in your heart.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Heart
  • Song

• For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

  

  Bjork
  • Life
  • Time
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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
  • Career
  • Song
  • Thankful

• Back when I was growing up, if I loved a song, I would record it off of the radio so I could hear them as many times as I wanted.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Up
  • Song
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• '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
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• Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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• If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like it's a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

  

  Jesse Harris
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• Def Jam, they've shown nothing but love as far as supporting my records. We haven't missed yet, radio-wise, and every song that they've actually tried to support has been No. 1.

  

  Jeremih Felton
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• Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
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• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
  • Actors
  • Necessary

• They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Gay
  • Force
  • Don't Believe

• Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Feels