Butch Vig (Nevermind Man) Quotes
I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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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.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
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I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
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Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.
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I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.
