"I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics."

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Eddie Van Halen

#Writing Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Tone Quotes

“I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.”
“What you see and what you hear on YouTube and the News and all that, it's not what it looks like, it's not what it seems, it's not what it is. Most of the time when you look at somebody off of an image they've built, it's the exact reversal of whatever that image is.”
“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.”

Source : "Persons of the Week: Larry Page and Sergey Brin" by Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 20, 2004.
“If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.”
“I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.”
“Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.”
“Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.”
“If weâ€™re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it,”

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