"Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't want to overthink anything too much - we just wanted to, writing-wise, chuck out as many ideas as possible."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Elena Tonra

#Wise Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.”
“We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.”
“Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.”
“Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.”
“Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.”
“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.”

Source : "Concrete".
“Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.”
“The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.”

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