Carole King Quotes
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.
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Me and Eddie really hit it off as songwriters and also as just people. It lasted three years. I don't regret one moment. They were great to me.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.
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You have to be different, great or first.
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You have to be the first, best or different.
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Everybody blows their first money.
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I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
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I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.
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If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.
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Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
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I'm a songwriter first.
