"I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it."

-- Petra Haden

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.”
“I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.”
“Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.”
“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.”
“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.”
“Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.”

Source : Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press
“I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.”
“Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.”

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