"The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out."

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Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

Damien Rice

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”

Source : Thomas Hardy (2011). “Under the Greenwood Tree: Or the Mellstock Quire: a Rural Painting of the Dutch School”, p.9, The Floating Press
“leave it to him to get messed up with deaths little girl”
“Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.”
“As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.”

Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.18
“An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.”
“Today, when we live in a what is called Western democracy here... you're not taken seriously all the time. You can write what you want because nobody cares about it. But at that time, they cared very much about what you wrote, so that's an entirely different feeling.”
“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”
“That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .”

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