"My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying."

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Source : "Sharon Van Etten" by T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 9, 2012.

Sharon Van Etten

#Mom Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.”
“The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.”
“But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.”
“I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.”
“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.”
“The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.”
“If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?”

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