"When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it."

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Nick Lowe

#Song Quotes #Believe Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.”
“The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.”

Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.”
“One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.”
“I want to sing because I want to sing.”
“You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.”
“It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.”
“The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.”

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