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Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a... RYAN TEDDER Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
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LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I listen to Christian music.
MARIANO RIVERA
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music... WERNER HERZOG
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmon... TRENT REZNOR Barry has produced albums by some major Christian music artists like Rebecca St. James, Slingshot 57...
BRAD CLARK I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
TONY OLLER I never listen to music when I'm writing.
BEN FOUNTAIN
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... PAUL SIMON
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. AMY GRANT I care about writing music and playing my music.
CARLA BRUNI
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. BARRY GIBB
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ELVIS COSTELLO
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. MARTIN MULL To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ...
DIRK BENEDICT
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. LAURIE ANDERSON
I listen to music constantly while writing. ORSON SCOTT CARD I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my...
DEBBY BOONE Christian musicians are certainly as talented as any performers in mainstream music. Yet, these Chri...
CAROL ANDERSON I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
LOLO JONES The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpo...
JOEY MCINTYRE I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
AYUMI HAMASAKI I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writi...
YANN TIERSEN People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs. DARREN CRISS
I'm a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of lon... TONI COLLETTE
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. CONRAD HALL I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own la...
JAMIE CULLUM
I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back... KENDRICK LAMAR
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music. EDGAR WRIGHT My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists lik...
CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I ha...
ERIK HASSLE To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing
PETER HOEG They have a pretty good following and good name recognition, ... Most of them are kind of like what ...
CHRIS JOHNSON I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
BILLY SHERWOOD
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of come... T. J. MILLER I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consist...
BO BICE
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole. SARAH J. MAAS
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
VANCE JOY I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly j...
AUSTIN BUTLER There are tons of great Christian artists who don't have access to the marketing machinery to get th...
GARY LEMASTER I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists li...
VIJENDER SINGH
I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare... HALSEY I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and ...
MARVIN HAMLISCH I enjoy music -- lots of different types of music. So I wanted to go with some kind of musical frog.
ANDREA COOPER Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about wr...
CAMERON CROWE
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'... CHARLI XCX Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.
DIRK BENEDICT
And I like music, too, I like playing music. BEAU BRIDGES
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I g... NICK CAVE I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian. CORNEL WEST
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writi... AIMEE BENDER
I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the stu... ANTHONY HAMILTON
Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, an... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it&...
ALISON BECHDEL When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging ou...
TRAVIS BARKER
I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I ... ANAT COHEN
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,... COLM TOIBIN
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ELVIS COSTELLO
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do ELVIS COSTELLO I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no e...
JIMMY CARL BLACK
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ...
ISAAC BROCK
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do ELVIS COSTELLO A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You ...
ADAM RODRIGUEZ I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays. GIA COPPOLA
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it'... DAVID FRIEDMAN
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t... JACKIE EVANCHO The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we&...
CHARLIE DANIELS
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT
Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like... KENNY G I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film sco...
FLUME continuation of me striving to be right spiritually. The assumption is that a person who does Christ...
KIRK FRANKLIN
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' DANIEL TAMMET Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess...
BARRY HANNAH Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
GAVIN BRYARS I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do... QUENTIN TARANTINO
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cu... ORSON WELLES
I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here. LOUISE BROWN
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be. 
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hi... 
Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." 
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ... 
How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have in... 
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin... 
I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. Th... 
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ... 
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you h... 
We were kissing.
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of ... 
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you ... 
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to... 
The more I see, the less I know for sure. 
Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who ... 
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. Wh... 
There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l... 
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. 
What hath night to do with sleep? 
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. 
...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail... 
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. 
All heroes are shadows of Christ 
John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. 
When did you get so clever?"
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when t... 
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. 
Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One ... 
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w... 
It does not really avail us much to get clear definitions. I am for clarity, by all means, but to th... 
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's p... 
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderst... 
The beauty and completeness of a wild apple tree living its own life in the woods is heartily acknow... 
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of m... 
They spend their time looking forward to the past. 
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. 
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark o... 
All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the enti... 
Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual. 
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. 
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blosso... 
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. 
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. 
Even if I was well - I must make myself as good a Philosopher as possible. Now I have had opportuni... 
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. 
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes th... 
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. 
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber... 
Every step in the dark turns out in the end to have been on course after all. 
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. 
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. 
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by th... 
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things a... 
Anyone can hate. It costs to love. 
Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams. 
Repentance is but want of power to sin. 
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. 
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. 
Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition. 
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and... 
All things are difficult before they are easy. 
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful so compelling that when-in a decade, a centu... 
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best... 
I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to ge... 
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos... 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped drinking,... 
He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. 
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. ... 
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying ... 
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a b... 
The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes. 
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of v... 
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga... 
You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It... 
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own l... 
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. 
Headlines twice the size of the events. 
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on... 
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. 
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so... 
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource Information that is not only renewable... 
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome... 
Genius is sorrow's child. 
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. 
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his ... 
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. 
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. 
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. 
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capaci... 
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up i... 