I've always written [music]. I've always played the piano. And until recently-- with Metric being a touring band-- that's what I did. I'd be at home, usually hiding in some room playing the piano. It just made sense that I would finally release some of this music. Friends sort of encouraged me to do so.
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ELLE VARNER I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,... DANIEL BRYAN I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago. JAMES CAAN I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That'... JASON MORAN Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called ... JAMIE MUIR I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK We called both the music and the videos CKY because that's all we did, ... I recorded music all nigh... BAM MARGERA I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan... JOHN TESH I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin... 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HENRY WARD BEECHER Maybe if I get off the road and stop playing with punk rock bands, there'll be a lot more records. I... BOB MOULD I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw... ROBERT PATTINSON In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or ... YANN TIERSEN I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a p... JACK WHITE I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ... AL JARREAU Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into batt... HEINRICH HEINE Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into batt... HEINRICH HEINE I think Norah Jones is a perfect example. Here's somebody who was playing the music she wanted to pl... 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For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
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His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of ... EMILY DICKINSON Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From ... EMILY DICKINSON God preaches, a noted clergyman,
And the sermon is never long;
So instead of getting to heaven... EMILY DICKINSON And so upon this wise I prayed,--
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours
... EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe... EMILY DICKINSON "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word... EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of C... EMILY DICKINSON If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk. EMILY DICKINSON The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,--
... EMILY DICKINSON The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
... EMILY DICKINSON Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive... EMILY DICKINSON Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Ti... EMILY DICKINSON The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocrac... EMILY DICKINSON Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear... EMILY DICKINSON Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. EMILY BRONTE Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed. EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. EMILY DICKINSON For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. EMILY DICKINSON