"It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first."

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Source : "New Shoes to Fill". Interview with Erik Fong, voivod.net. April 8, 2003.

Jason Newsted

#Song Quotes #Art Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.”
“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (1998). “The House Gun: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan
“If you're a professional, you'll make it work. you can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.”
“It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.”
“He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.”
“The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.”

Source : Source: www.thegentlemansjournal.com
“I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it”

Source : Song: Work It, Album: Under Construction
“Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.”

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