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• All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

  Vashti Bunyan

  Song, Writing, Issues

  Interview with Matthew Murphy, pitchfork.com. October 23, 2005.

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• I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.

  Vicki Sue Robinson

  Mother, Believe, School

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• Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)

  Robin Guthrie

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.

  Robin Guthrie

  Responsibility, Guitar, Play

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• I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".

  William Orbit

  Trying, Stuff, Solo

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• I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

  Wilson Pickett

  Stupid, Kids, Looks

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• If it has to be put in a box, it's a country record. But it's hard to do that, because it is inspired and influenced by the history of music in two different people's backgrounds. I think the focal point for many is the harmonies, and I think that is what is special and unique about it.

  Jessica Harp

  Country, Unique, Thinking

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• I think the record-buying public know what they like, and when people are trying to pander to them, I think they know it. They want the genuine article, so if we try to sort of "dumb down" for the mass public, I think they're too smart for that, and would recognize us as fakes. It seems like the bands that do crossover do so really on their own terms, and they just find that their terms just kind of make a big dove-tail with the masses.

  Ira Kaplan

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

  Shane Filan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

  Shane Filan

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it!

  Shane Filan

  Summer, Song, Optimistic

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• Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Simple, People, Why Not

  "How Liberals Think: Mika Says 'It's Kind Of Simple' - Employers Should Just Pay Workers More". Interview with Joe Scarborough, www.newsbusters.org. December 11, 2012.

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• A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

  Fred Thompson

  Gun, Virginia, Criminals

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• The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Long, President, United States

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• The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Song, Mistake, Play

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• All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

  Alanis Morissette

  Promise, Snapshots, Default

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• I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

  Nick Vujicic

  Book, Hug, World

  Interview with Lucky Severson, www.pbs.org. March 29, 2013.

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• It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Awards

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• I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

  Paul McCartney

  Reading, Boys, Thinking

  "Paul McCartney is still hungry for success after 50 years at the top of the music industry" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2013.

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• I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Want

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

  Calista Flockhart

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

  Scotty McCreery

  Song, Religious, Strong

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• 'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were being pitched to me. I wrote that after song after song after song was just the same song, just a different melody, so I was just looking for something more to put on the record.

  Scotty McCreery

  Country, Song, Different

  "Scotty McCreery on ‘See You Tonight,’ Brad Paisley and country lyrics". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. October 17, 2013.

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• You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

  John Irving

  Writing, Self, Stupidity

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• You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, College, Needs

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