"I operate in such a vacuum. I write by myself, it's a very solitary experience, and I'm not used to, I've never had a label or anyone to say, "We wanna hear a single, we gotta come back and retool some of these songs until they're more catchy.""

-- Nicholas Thorburn

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”
“To be honest, I was unaware of the huge frat-rap scene that was taking over the blogosphere until I found myself right in the middle of it. But there are really a ton of talented dudes out there doing this, and I'm just having a great time making music and being a part of it all.”
“Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air Sweeps, like hatred, through still days - The August heat now gone elsewhere, To Southern, bird-filled coasts and bays; Amid constricting vales of cloud, A pale and liquid Autumn sun That once beat down on an empty plain And may again. And may again.”
“Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?”
“To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.”
“The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.”
“Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.”

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