Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
Lana Parrilla -
I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
Edie Campbell -
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne -
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
Park Chan-wook -
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
Becky G
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
Imogen Heap -
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke -
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
Patrick Lencioni -
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
Ed McMahon -
It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
Valerie June
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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 -
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
Lafcadio Hearn -
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
Malcolm McDowell -
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
Vince Gill -
I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
La'Porsha Renae -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
Van Morrison -
'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
Candice Millard -
It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.
Alfonso Cuaron -
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