"I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively...writing songs was king"

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Source : Interview with Brian Koppelman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

Jakob Dylan

#Song Quotes #Kings Quotes #Writing Quotes

“To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.”
“I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.”

Source : Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com
“When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.”
“I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And I did. Back then, on $125, you could do that in Manhattan. I was 19 years old the first time I got published and paid. I think it was a hundred bucks. I stared at my name on the check for 20 minutes.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I don't take left-right on any of my positions. I take common sense and so again, if alternative energy saves money, it creates jobs, it enhances national security, it's good for the environment - I'm trying to find who's against it, right.”

Source : "Obama’s new energy plan: Why not put the fed's trillions into renewables?". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. June 2, 2014.
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”
“If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.”

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