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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Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
