"I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head."

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Source : "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

Graham Russell

#Song Quotes #Couple Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?”
“Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.”
“A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.”
“The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.”
“Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?”
“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”
“There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.”
“Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.”

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