"I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination."

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Source : "Exclusive Q&A with Carney's Reeve Carney". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2011.

Reeve Carney

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.”
“If I found her floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.”
“Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.”
“I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.”
“[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.”
“Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.”
“The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.”
“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”

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