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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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
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Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
