Taj Mahal quote: "I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing."

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'...
JOHNNY CASH

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebod...
DEBBIE FORD

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if yo...
BEBE REXHA

I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I...
NATE BERKUS

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm c...
LEONARD NIMOY

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri...
HUNTER HAYES

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says...
MAYA ANGELOU

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL

I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno...
SHY GLIZZY

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including wri...
JENNY SLATE

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
EMMYLOU HARRIS

I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's e...
DANIEL CORMIER

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Fi...
JERRY DOYLE

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK

Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoyi...
ALISON SWEENEY

There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's f...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used ...
MEGAN MULLALLY

I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I...
ELMORE LEONARD

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of ...
EMINEM

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON

You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som...
CAROL BURNETT

If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f...
TRISHA YEARWOOD

It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December th...
MERLE HAGGARD

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newt...
CRISS ANGEL

I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anythi...
BETSY HODGES

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think ...
PADDY CONSIDINE

I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and...
BUSY PHILIPPS

There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's ...
FLEUR EAST

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An...
OPRAH WINFREY

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha...
BETH ORTON

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don&#...
IMELDA STAUNTON

If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a p...
FELICITY JONES

Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a ...
WHITFIELD DIFFIE

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that ...
SALLY RIDE

Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if th...
WASHED OUT

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I&...
CATE BLANCHETT

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try...
JOE NICHOLS

You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody els...
BILLY PORTER

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And...
GBENGA AKINNAGBE

I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything el...
ALEXA VEGA

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of...
BARRY HANNAH

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of s...
CAROL BERG

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That'...
LAURENT BRANCOWITZ

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know...
WALTER MOSLEY

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i...
MAE WHITMAN

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny abo...
WILL ARNETT

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get...
HERB ALPERT

When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm wr...
BENNY BLANCO

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
JEFF BEZOS

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gott...
EAZY-E

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you...
EMMY ROSSUM

I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come ...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'l...
ABEL FERRARA

I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.
ALBERT FINNEY

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau...
BRENDON URIE

I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu...
DEMETRI MARTIN

I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting...
LOU DUVA

I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to...
SHARON JONES

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows l...
DEL SHANNON

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han...
MITCH HEDBERG

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w...
LYDIA DAVIS

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be abl...
RICKY WILLIAMS

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll alway...
DAVID DUCHOVNY

I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air i...
CRISS ANGEL

Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's ...
BUN E. CARLOS

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan...
JIM ROHN

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan...
JOSH TURNER

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to ...
LIL WAYNE

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and &#...
BETH DITTO

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ...
BARRY MANILOW

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab...
IGGY AZALEA

I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially...
ALEK WEK

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, &#...
SNOOP DOGG

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe...
ANDREA BARRETT

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to a...
SEAN YOUNG

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that...
DYLAN MORAN

Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think...
KATE ASHFIELD

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's ...
RIHANNA

I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some...
CAM

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE

I'll see somebody struggling with something, and it doesn't matter if it's ironing or mo...
JOY MANGANO

I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu...
JACK COLEMAN

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
CANDY CROWLEY

I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

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Taj Mahal

I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

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