"I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Martha Wainwright

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If you feel like singing along, don't.”
“It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.”
“But the judge would have to be people in the fashion world and a bunch of random girls. Because guys in the league aren't trying to impress guys in the league. They're trying to impress people who have clout in the fashion world and women.”
“There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.”
“If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.”
“I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.”
“Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
“Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting”

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