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I started writing songs at age 15.


Vince Clarke
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Billy Joel
Tags: Music Women Now
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I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.


Moises Arias
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Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
Mark Mothersbaugh
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
Otis Blackwell
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Karl Kraus
You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.
Stefano Gabbana
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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt
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What's fun now is that I have a show at USA that I co-wrote called 'Benched.' I'm completely behind the scenes and not the actor at all.
Michaela Watkins
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As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.
Allison Mack
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I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
Norah Jones
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Brian Eno
I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.
Avan Jogia
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I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.
Johnny Marr
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Irvine Welsh
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
Patricia Richardson
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Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.
Nicole Ari Parker
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
Wayne Kramer
So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.
John Fahey
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
Kate Atkinson
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