Carole King Quotes

I'm a songwriter first.

Carole King

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• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• 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.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• 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.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Great
  • Moment

• I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Felt

• I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Kind
  • Accepted
  • Songwriters

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Play

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Brain
  • Gold
  • Firsts

• 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.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• 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.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Country
  • Years

• You have to be different, great or first.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Great
  • Different
  • Firsts

• You have to be the first, best or different.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Different
  • Firsts

• Everybody blows their first money.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Money
  • Firsts
  • Blow

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Heart
  • Band
  • Firsts

• In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fighting
  • Liberty
  • Texas

• My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Study
  • Idiot

• Columbus wrote this of his dehumanized “cargo”: “It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell….Here there are so many of these slaves…although they are living things they are as good as gold.” Columbus gave permission to his crew who remained in Hispaniola to enslave the native Taino people “in the amount desired.” Columbus awarded a teenage Taino girl to one of his crew, Miguel Cuneo, for use as his sex slave. Cuneo bragged that when she “resisted with all her strength,” he “thrashed her mercilessly and raped her.” Columbus bestowed this kind of “employee benefit” on many of his men, writing to a friend about large numbers of “dealers” who specialized in supplying young girls to the so-called Christians, adding, “those from nine to ten [years old] are now in demand.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Slaves
  • Columbus
  • Holy Trinity

• I'm a songwriter first.

  

  Carole King
  • Firsts
  • Songwriters