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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We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
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I would encourage young women to find a person, give it your all, and leave it all on the field. The one thing I have found is that, if you are sitting at a table, most women will want to only give their opinion only when it's almost fact in their mind - whereas dudes will pontificate a lot more. And I will tell you, I've started pontificating a lot more, which is very satisfying. Women should not be afraid to speak.
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This is a physical game, and that's how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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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.
