"It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless."

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Source : "Random Rules: Albert Hammond Jr". Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. May 8, 2007.

Albert Hammond, Jr.

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“The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.”
“The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell.”
“Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.”
“Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.”
“A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.”
“You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.”
“Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.”

Source : John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23
“Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.”

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