"I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation."

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Katie Stelmanis

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.”
“I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what youâ€™ve done before.”
“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”
“There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.”
“If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.”
“It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.”
“You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix”
“On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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