Dinah Jane Quotes
Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I love writing songs.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...
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I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
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I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
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Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
