Brent Smith famous quotes
03-28-2025
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Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.
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We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.
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Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.
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The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.
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You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.
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I screwed up at a young age with my parents. They were very religious and they didn't really understand music. They didn't really listen to music. I went through a series of battles with them about why I loved music.
-- Brent Smith
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I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
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