Lee Ranaldo Quotes
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
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I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a real thrill to meet and actually become friends with people like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. They were all working the Sands at that time... and Bill and I became... well, not close friends, but at least acquaintances where they knew us by name, and most of them just called us the righteous boys.
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I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.
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I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first.
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People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
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Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
