"I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little buzz you get when you do something well and sing it out loud to the public. And people clap and tell you how great you are."

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Guy Clark

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.”

Source : Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.”

Source : David Almond (2013). “Skellig”, p.16, Hachette UK
“Why are you taking your breasts away?â€ -Dane â€œCernunnosâ€ Hearne”
“That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th Century Fox. They put up a set, and Robert Aldrich actually directed me in this screen test.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.”
“In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.Â this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.Â My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.Â Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin
“You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.”
“Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.”

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