"Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the guitar and work out a melody. The lyrics are there to flesh out the tone of the music. I've tried before to do things the other way around, but it never seems to work. Obviously, I spend a lot of time on my lyrics, I take them very seriously, but they're kinda secondary. Well, equal, maybe. I think sometimes that if you write a poem, it should remain as just a poem, just... words."

-- Iron & Wine

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.”
“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)
“Don’t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I don’t want them to read anything into it. But if you want to say that I laughed, I think that would be a good answer.”

Source : "Zelda Producer On Majora's Mask Remake: 'say That I Laughed'" By Andrew Goldfarb, www.ign.com. September 12, 2013.
“I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.”
“I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.”

Source : Interview With Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.
“There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.”
“God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.”
“As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later”

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