Isaac Hanson Quotes

No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'

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• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Influence

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Think
  • Song
  • Know

• The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Money
  • Night
  • Day

• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Song
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Day
  • Government
  • End

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Experience
  • True
  • Giving

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Shoes
  • Fish

• When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Eyes

• I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Different
  • Long
  • Day

• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Career
  • Day
  • Broken

• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Expectation

• My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

  

  Rafael Nadal

• In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • People
  • Movie
  • Single

• When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • People
  • Important
  • Humanity

• No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Song
  • Emotionally
  • Touched