"I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist."

-- Emeli Sande

#Song Quotes #Believe Quotes #Artist Quotes

“The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.”
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.”
“As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.”

Source : "Oprah Writes Letter To Her Teenage Self. What Would You Say?", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.
“When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.”
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.”

Source : Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”
“Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.”
“I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.”
“This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.”

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