Edwin McCain Quotes
Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.
Quotes to Explore
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
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I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
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Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.
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I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
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I like walking on the edge.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
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R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm one of those guys, I can stand up there with a mic. I'm not gonna freeze.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
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Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.
