Carole King Quotes
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Songwriters tell the truth.
Kara DioGuardi
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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.
Niall Horan
One Direction
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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.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
Neil Diamond
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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.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
Ernest Hemingway
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Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
William James
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
William of Auxerre
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
Tom Stoppard
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm a songwriter first.
Carole King