Patrick MacGill Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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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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Every idea has its time.
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I want every Grammy.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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I love writing songs.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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Some songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.
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I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have to use one or the other. I love digital because it's really great for songwriting because you can just cut and move choruses around and pull chunks of songs. It's really easy to hear quickly "Oh, maybe the arrangement should be like this."
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I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
