Phil Collins Quotes
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
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I like to prove people wrong.
Zach LaVine
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
Wayne Wonder
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
Edmund Hillary
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
T.I.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
Yo-Yo Ma
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
Tamra Davis
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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
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
M. Ward
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
P. J. Harvey
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
P. J. Harvey
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
Bastian Schweinsteiger
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
Frances Farmer
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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The world wants to like America.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
Wayne Brady
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
Kara Hayward
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
Carl Andre
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True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
J. D. Greear
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The song 'Can't Look Back Now' by the Weepies reminds me of the entire 'Life Unexpected' experience.
Britt Robertson
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You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
Phil Collins Genesis