David Longdon Quotes

Progressive rock to us is extended song form. It allows us to develop themes and an album in our genre could be likened to a writer writing a novel rather than a short story.

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• When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Teacher

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Want
  • Story

• Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Story
  • Perfection
  • Short

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mistake

• United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Song
  • Past
  • Present

• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Up
  • Song
  • Failure

• I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Rock

• I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Why
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • People
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • House

• I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Song

• It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • Song
  • Worry

• I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • Poverty
  • Role Models
  • Hopelessness

• I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Done
  • Lucky
  • Succeed

• I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Moral

• One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Actors
  • Enjoyed

• Progressive rock to us is extended song form. It allows us to develop themes and an album in our genre could be likened to a writer writing a novel rather than a short story.

  

  David Longdon
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Story