"Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience."

-- Amos Lee

#Songwriting Quotes

“Tears are tears, but I don't want to draw tears that aren't proactive. The feeling â€œAhh, it's so sadâ€ when people die and it's all over, it doesn't feel quite right. Even though a lot of people died in Gintama. Even if people die, it's not the end. I don't want to draw tears that fall and stay at the same place, but droplets that sprinkle along the road to one's future.”

Source : Quick Japan Interview, www.yorozuyasoul.com. 2009.
“There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,”

Source : "Excerpt: Bush v. Gore marks high court's low point" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2007.
“The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.”
“I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!”

Source : TV Legends, August 6, 2005.
“All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.”
“We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.”
“I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.”
“It felt really radically uncomfortable. And I was really not sure at first about releasing that body of work. But then the more I thought about it, the more I thought that that position, that location, is something that's just sort of interesting in its own right, as an experience, as a process. Again, we're talking about this rubric, this set of rules, this grid that I toss on top of different locations globally. This is what came out of Africa.”

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