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Mike Stoller Quote: 'I have to write the songs ...'

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Profession: Musician
Nationality: American
Birthday: May 13, 1933

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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

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Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.

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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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