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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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.
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If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same
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One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.
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You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
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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.
