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Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. Gotye
Harry Belafonte quote: "You can cage the singer but not the song."
You can cage the singer but not the song. Harry Belafonte
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. Donald Knuth
Rachel Hunter quote: "Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the..."
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories. Rachel Hunter
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. Charles Rangel
Edith Sitwell quote: "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith Sitwell
Rosa Parks quote: "I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen."
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. Rosa Parks
I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me. Skitch Henderson
I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man. Ralph Ellison
Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then. Ninette de Valois
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people. Neil Gaiman
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. --..."
Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. -- Bella Cullen Stephenie Meyer
Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable. Paulo Coelho
Elbert Hubbard quote: "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;..."
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard