"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."

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Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

Evan Dando

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.”
“Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.”
“Whatâ€™s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
“I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.”
“It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.”
“I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.”
“[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.”
“What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot yourself after a while. But you don't have a million different ways of thinking about what you have been thinking about for many years. And then there's the truism that you're only as good as your students. If they're not into what's going on, it doesn't matter who you are.”

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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