Eric Bachmann Quotes
As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I write in the studio.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.
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If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.
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As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
