Scout Niblett famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.
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The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.
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I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period of time, and slowly, a set of songs emerge that make some sort of sense to me as a body of work that turns into an album.
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I've never thought to notate my songs...I tend to just have to remember them.
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I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.
-- Scout Niblett
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
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I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
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With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
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The secret of a great melody is a secret.
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