Cody Johnson (Cody Glenn Johnson III) Quotes
When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
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The gods help them that help themselves.
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I am a poor hater.
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A Khaled record is always the best.
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I like gettin' old.
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I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.
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I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.
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I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
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The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.
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Neither my fiance nor I take ourselves too seriously, and we want our wedding to reflect our lightheartedness.
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Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.
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I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
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Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.
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When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.
