Tenille Townes (Tenille Nicole Nadkrynechny) Quotes
I feel like every song to me is so different and unique in the sense where writing to me is very much a spiritual thing where you just kind of get out of the way of yourself and listen to what you feel.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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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.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
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When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'
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I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
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If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
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I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered in every genre of music, so it could be a rock sample, jazz, soul, reggae.
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Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
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You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
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I feel like every song to me is so different and unique in the sense where writing to me is very much a spiritual thing where you just kind of get out of the way of yourself and listen to what you feel.
