“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.” IfsSongRecordsBlameComplainingAlways Complaining Author:Randy Newman
“I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.” PeopleWantFirstsRealShowsSongExistenceAtheismMediaTvsEternalDressesBlameEntertainmentPositive AtheismTv ShowsCostumesFrenzyFandoms Author:Marilyn Manson
“If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingStoriesSongLaughingWrittenMaterialsBlameFaultsGod KnowsTanks Author:Jason Graae
“The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry, Blame It On Me." The first two demos I ever wrote and demoed, the two biggest artists at the time took them.” FirstsTwoArtistSongVoiceBlameSorryDemos Author:Bryce Wilson
“A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing, because it made me feel like I was forcing myself to be more mature and grow up a little bit. It's not putting the blame on anybody, it's accepting responsibility just as much as the other person.” WritingSongResponsibilityAcceptingGrowing UpBlameBitterBreakupMatureAccepting Responsibility Author:Nicole Atkins
“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.” PeopleIfsWritingYearsBookWholeWould BeWantedFilmSongFallCompanyStepsShareCryBedAskingBlameFalling In LoveAffairPopsRidiculousThese DaysIntensityBobTapeBackwardsChanging Your LifeDylanLove AffairWriting PoetryPop SongEliotBrechtCompilation Author:David Nicholls
“I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.” PeopleIfsWantSometimesSongGrowsCausesAudienceGrowing UpWrittenChangedStrangeRainBlameFaultsCrowdsPopsIncomeHeyRemarkableSongwritingRoyaltyBlame SomeoneKeep Your FaithWeird Life Author:Joe Strummer
“In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.” WorldNeedsGivingDifferentSongParentMy OwnBrainWifeIgnoranceNormalEmpowermentBlameAssKicksNew WorldBe YouButtonsOld World Author:Rob Brezsny
“There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.” KnowsMenHas BeensShowsSongMoralHe ManPoetPraiseBlame Author:Thomas MacDonagh
“In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.” StatesAmericaSongSpecialCapitalismBlamePrivilegeFulfillmentAbandonedCapitalistProphecySirensSiren Song Book:Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov Source: Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov
“Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. Be strong: say not the days are evil - who's to blame! And fold your hands and acquiesce - o shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely in god's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day, how long! Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.” LongMatterHardPlayDreamHandsFacesSongFightingEvilNamesSpeakStrongStruggleHard WorkTomorrowBattleShameBlameLiftsLoadFoldsSpeaks OutLife Struggle Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.” IfsHas BeensHandsSongCoursesHouseSilenceDoorsKeysBearsBirdBlameFaultsIf I CouldFly Away Book:The Notebooks of Robert Frost Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost