"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."

Attention, Result, Songs, World

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"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."

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"I think the killers get far too much attention."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I think I'm a focus for international attention."

Sting, British Musician

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"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

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"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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"I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored."

James Ellroy, American Writer

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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

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"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."

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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

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"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."

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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."

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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

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"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."

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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."

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