"Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song- or as he says, â€˜putting some balls into it'- isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did."

-- Clay Aiken

#Song Quotes #Strong Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.”
“Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1983). “In my mother's house”, Clarion Books
“I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.”
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”
“The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.”
“The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.”
“The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.”
“I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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