"A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing, because it made me feel like I was forcing myself to be more mature and grow up a little bit. It's not putting the blame on anybody, it's accepting responsibility just as much as the other person."

-- Nicole Atkins

#Breakup Quotes #Song Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.”
“We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.”
“A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.”
“You know it's real when you are who you think you are”
“I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.”
“You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.”
“Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'”
“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.114, Ludwig von Mises Institute

You may also like:

Amanda Shires
Singer-songwriter
Jason Isbell
Singer-songwriter
Justin Townes Earle
Singer-songwriter
Lucinda Williams
Singer-songwriter
Nick Cave
Musician
Shuler Hensley
Singer
A.C. Newman
Musician