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Related I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record faili... DANIEL JOHNS You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer ... WAYLON JENNINGS I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't ... SIMON COWELL I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a... ISAAC BROCK I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... JODI PICOULT I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another re... DAN DEACON When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ... STEVEN ADLER I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by... JOSH TURNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to... GLEN PHILLIPS I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'... SAM SMITH You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obliga... YELAWOLF Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... TOM PETTY I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High... KARA DIOGUARDI The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship... BILLY RAY CYRUS After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway ... IDINA MENZEL I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consi... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&... BENNY BLANCO There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while ... JOE PERRY I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha... INGE DE BRUIJN I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a... KIESZA When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.... GINNIFER GOODWIN I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sample... MIKE SHINODA I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles... AARON SCHOCK I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazi... BARRY BONDS I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When... DOUG COLLINS I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... CANDACE BUSHNELL Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - ... SUMMER GLAU I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two. DAVE VAN RONK I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An... OPRAH WINFREY Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part... FRANK OCEAN Every record, you want it to be different, and you write differently in different cities. We wrote a... STEVE BAYS It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kil... DIPLO I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda ... ACE FREHLEY Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't ... EMMY ROSSUM I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin... DIANA GALBADON I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory ... STURGILL SIMPSON They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco... GEORGE HARRISON I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We w... DAVE SITEK A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The press has a right to go out and write stories... but I think similarly, and what Donald Trump ha... SEAN SPICER Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or m... YUNA It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... HENRY ROLLINS I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I... KELLY MASTERSON When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio... AGNES OBEL I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the ... HERB ALPERT You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hu... BILLY CORGAN I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. RITA COOLIDGE if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I ... KATE DICAMILLO I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd. PATRICK STUMP He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... JOSH TURNER The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. ... DAVID CROSBY I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly writ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always be... LL COOL J I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape record... PAUL TAYLOR I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able ... AVA DUVERNAY I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record woul... CHARLIE WORSHAM I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and... SRIKUMAR RAO I had a good record company right from the beginning, and I'm still with them after all these ye... JOHNNY MATHIS The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make ... STURGILL SIMPSON Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't ... ELTON JOHN I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record... SPIKE JONZE Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. ... ROY AYERS I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, yo... BRIAN ENO When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard... SAMPHA I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona... TIKA SUMPTER Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could ... GLENN DANZIG Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You... BJORN ULVAEUS I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be ... PATTI SMITH Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write ... BILL CALLAHAN I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I... SAMANTHA STOSUR I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I ... DAVID NAIL I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the ... JESSIE J When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to he... JOHN LYDON I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young... HUGH LAURIE I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It... BALTASAR KORMAKUR I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is ... KEVIN HART I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recor... ADRIAN BELEW When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t... ALBERTO MORAVIA Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and ... JOHN FRUSCIANTE It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicag... JOAN CUSACK There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, &... DAVID O. RUSSELL Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't real... JEREMY IRONS I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made... DOMINIC COOPER I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there e... HUNTER TYLO In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind ... JAMES BLUNT I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid. DARIUS RUCKER No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and ... RYAN LOCHTE
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CORNELL MICHEL My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of ... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a ... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Franc... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write program... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas... CHRIS Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ... CHRIS Only true love will make it through the wicked world. CHRIS Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again. CHRIS I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird. CHRIS ROCK Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr... CHRIS RIDDELL I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin... CHRIS PINE I had a beard way before it was fashionable. CHRIS STAPLETON Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself. CHRIS JERICHO For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou... CHRIS HEMSWORTH