"I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff."

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Source : "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

Hamilton Leithauser

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Looks Quotes

“A decent life was the train that hadnâ€™t hit you, the slumlord you hadnâ€™t offended, the malaria you hadnâ€™t caught”
“Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”
“He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.”
“Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.”
“Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.”
“If you're eating sugar throughout the day, you're spiking your blood sugar level and you're becoming a fat storing machine.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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