Tom Scholz Quotes
The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
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I work hard and support myself.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
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A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.
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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.
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I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
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The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.
