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“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.”

Firsts Wanted Song Girl Wish Known Advice Skins Like Me Obsessed Thick Thick Skin

Author:Kate Voegele

“I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.”

People Feels Song Skins Complaining Beach Hanging Out Chill Cant Brazil Great Women

Author:Theophilus London

“The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.”

Song Military Skins March Gypsy

Author:Jean Cocteau

“There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Song Type Healthy First Time Skins Instant Tension Gratification Instant Gratification Concise

Author:Andrew Bird

“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.”

People Ifs Writing Kind Different Enough Facts Song Stuff Heard Style Determination Skins Despite Good Enough Thick Persevere Not Good Enough Thick Skin

Author:John Legend

“To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.”

Needs Wells Lasts Song Skins Daring Provocative Clauses

Author:Carrie Brownstein