"I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs."

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Source : Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

Jens Lekman

#Song Quotes #Piano Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.”
“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.”
“Who I think is actually doing great things for the appearance of women is that Kardashian girl. Kim Kardashian is giving an alternative. I don't know very much about her and I don't read articles, but just looking at the pictures you go, "Great! There's a girl with an ass, and that's fabulous. On behalf of all girls with asses, thank you."”

Source : "Lucy Lawless Interview SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2011.
“I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.”

Source : Angel Kyodo Williams (2002). “Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace”, p.81, Penguin
“It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.”
“Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.”
“People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.”

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