"Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Bruce Hornsby

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.”
“If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!”
“I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.”

Source : "'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.
“Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.”

Source : Advice to her pupils. Quoted in Alan Kendall The Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger (1976).
“May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.”
“Looks do count. Deliver visually stunning merchandising. Engage at the point of sale. Help consumers shop with their eyes.”
“When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.”
“Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?”

Source : Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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