Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
Sam Hunt
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
Sam Hunt
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Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.
Kacey Musgraves
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
Viggo Mortensen
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
Fiona Apple
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Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard
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There DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read them had the power of a long piece, but they were prose, and they had the power of poetry, in that the last line wasn't the end, it was a reverberation, like when you tap on a glass made of crystal, and it goes ping.
Sandra Cisneros
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That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
Bill Sienkiewicz
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What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.
Lynn Coady
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My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'
Dirk Nowitzki
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
Catherynne M. Valente
