"I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss."

-- Rostam Batmanglij

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Scared Quotes

“But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)”
“After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.”
“It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.”
“I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.”

Source : "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2012.
“But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.”
“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation”
“Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.”
“... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times ...”

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