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songs
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them. Lucinda Williams
song play singing
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you. Chris Cornell
song kids singing
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
song responsibility people
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
song coffee gone-away
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
song reality judging
Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.
song thinking starks
What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.
song essence impact
Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
song writing play
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
pain lying world
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. Albert Schweitzer
pain privilege lord
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
pain eye animal
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
pain mean secret
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.
pain eye responsibility
The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.
painted
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. John Burnside
pain small sound
One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope, as if it were in pain. Shelly Williams
painfully poor riches true
No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
pain tragedy
One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.
book reality diaries
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller
book becoming wonderful
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
books both longer people skin
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books. Cory Doctorow
books grew invisible life reflected totally
I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading. Malorie Blackman
books creative kinds poems responses starting stories tapping teenagers teens themselves using
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
book dream forgotten heart human king message pages powerful reading required
Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity. Oprah Winfrey
books god man none quest stars turn
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
book ending life page writes
Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.
books skilled
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.