Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Quotes to Explore
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'
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Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
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Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
