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“I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.”

People Thinking Said Ideas Real Matter Lasts Night Song Culture Girl Left Situation Subjects Albums Pops Pop Culture Subject Matter Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."”

“And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.”

Song Left Approach Rings Nests Larks Tow

Book:Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton

Source: Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton

“I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'”

Thinking Writing Hard Use Song Left Studios Nine

Author:Jessie J

“I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.”

Song Left Enemy Land Cold Mercy Praise Flattery Leaving Me

Book:Избранные Стихи

Source: Избранные Стихи

“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”

Stills Song Left Cities Generations Childhood Havens Materials Advantage Forgotten Village Edgy Sedentary Open Road

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!”

Writing Song Left Crazy Seven Albums Eight Flight Planes Notebook Brazil Blackberries

Author:Estelle

“I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.”

People Feels Able Past Song Left Environment Written Lovers Comfortable Admire Crafts Accomplished Songwriting Great Love Past And Present Great Lovers

Author:John Fogerty

“The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.”

Dream Time Song Left Poor Rich Century Warmth Load Lad Lulls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!”

People Thinking Stills Home Used Song Dies Left Appreciate Let Me Yearning Earning Matched Appreciate Life

Author:Patsy Cline

“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”

Looks Eye Song Next Left Hell Dancing Silent Saint Stranger Bones Ecstasy Shade Receiving Bent Handsome Elevators Jelly Dance Floor

Book:The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel

Source: The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel

“Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.”

People World Should Song Left Given Black Perfect Findings Weapons Credit Bitter Phenomenon Bitterness Holocaust Bitter People

Author:Nikki Giovanni