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I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.
Gene Ween
Tags: You About Lot
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.


Kylie Minogue
Tags: People Me Know
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
Jack Kerouac
Tags: Power Had Better
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We became the songs we wrote.


Barry Mann
I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
Graham Nash
Tags: Any Am I Am
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
George Shearing
Tags: Time You Think
I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
George Michael
Tags: Women Men People
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About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.


Tim LaHaye
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
William Wilberforce
I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.
Mike Love
Tags: Good Great Me
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A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.


Rupert Holmes
Tags: Had Lot Story
It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.
Leo Kottke
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber
Tags: Than Better After
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For better or worse, poetry is my life.


Donald Hall
I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
Meghan Trainor
Tags: Women Want Most
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
Chris Martin
Tags: About Had Any
For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
Kathryn Harrison
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
Joan Collins
Tags: About Every Then
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.
Graham Parker
Tags: About Just Really
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.


Thomas Fuller
Tags: Travel Man Better