Robert Trujillo Quotes

With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.

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• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Never
  • Write
  • Boring

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Think
  • Game
  • Fans

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• 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'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Songs
  • Name
  • Tend

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Worth
  • Heartbreak

• Every battalion has its marching songs.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Songs
  • Every
  • Marching

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Southern California

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Father
  • Problem

• And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

  

  Bill Knott
  • Earth
  • Soles
  • Dead Man

• It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Battle

• With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
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  • Fans
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