"Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark."

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Source : Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

Alex Goot

#Song Quotes #Single Mom Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.”

Source : Bees in Some Bonnets (1979) p. 185
“I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club.”
“The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.”
“Nobody ever lies about being lonely.”

Source : "Fictional character: Robert E. Lee Prewitt". "From Here to Eternity", www.imdb.com. 1953.
“If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boy survives without any Jewish education, with no synagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is in his soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue or a Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. It has been there from the beginning and there is no Jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.”
“I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.”
“I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.”
“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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