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

• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Firsts
  • Class
  • Grades

• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Belief

• Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Media

• When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Friendship
  • Asks
  • Assets

• When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Victim
  • Convince

• I'm a songwriter first.

  

  Carole King
  • Firsts
  • Songwriters