"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

-- Richard Thompson

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Experience Quotes

“We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.”
“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”
“I need to find avenues to express all of my creativity. There's always polarizing forces. Sometimes I feel like my work is going in different directions, but hopefully it's just expanding. And I think as much as possible to just let ourselves be in all the various aspects. I feel more inspired by people who just will let themselves be as creators, and I don't think it has to be contradictory.”

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“Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.”
“What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!”
“I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.”
“I think looks do matter on television.”
“My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.”

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