Leland (Brett Leland McLaughlin) Quotes
I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.Leland
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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'.
Yuna -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent -
I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson -
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara DioGuardi -
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
P. J. Harvey -
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville -
I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker
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I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes -
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens -
My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.
Sam Heughan -
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
Ralph Baer -
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.
Michael Jackson -
I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
James Brown -
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
Hassan Nasrallah -
I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.
Leland