Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I feel, in drama, you don't need to be fed everything. Even though sometimes when you watch, you want to know what happened and you want to see it, I feel like sometimes it's so much stronger to see the effects that those actions have had.
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The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
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I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
