"The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Tim Finn

#Joy Quotes #Trying Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.”
“There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.”

Source : "Aspects of 20th Century Music". Book by R. Delone, May 1, 1975.
“I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.”
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
“I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.”
“Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.”
“My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.”

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