"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."

Idea, Emotion, Song

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"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

Brian Eno, British Musician

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"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."

Michael J. Fox, Canadian Actor

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"Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly."

John Hull, American Economist

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"We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked."

Thom Yorke, English Musician

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"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."

Judy Holliday, American Actress

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"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."

Izabella Scorupco, Polish Actress

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"Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

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"I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

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"If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it."

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"Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally."

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"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another."

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"If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically."

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"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."

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"The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal."

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