"Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one."

-- Dan Bern

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”
“With me, everything turns into mathematics.”
“An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”
“But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.”
“Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.”
“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“I'm glad I'm not a politician.”
“Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.”

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