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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My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
Damien Dempsey
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I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"
Valerie June
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Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Georges Vantongerloo
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
Willem Dafoe
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I'm a songwriter first.
Carole King
