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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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I love writing songs.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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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 tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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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 want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang.
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No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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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.
