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The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome... DEL CLOSE In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious a...
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I do love brash pop music. It's fun. ROMY MADLEY CROFT
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you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c... VAL KILMER Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
ALAN CUMMING Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for th...
ADAM SCHLESINGER
I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as... SHAWN MENDES
You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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AUBREY PLAZA
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. WALT DISNEY If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I ...
TOVE LO I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Po...
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ADAM LAMBERT
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to ... SADE ADU Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
CHASKE SPENCER You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I&#...
DIANA KRALL I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &...
FEFE DOBSON
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im...
VINCE CLARKE I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri...
LUKE COMBS I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark,...
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ... T-PAIN
I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the ar... WASHED OUT
I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happe... SIA
I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorou... AVICII There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee...
VALERIE SIMPSON I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a diff... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN
I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ... MALCOLM MCDOWELL
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ALEX CHILTON
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I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ... RUSSELL CROWE
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h... TRISHA YEARWOOD The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it...
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ORVILLE REDENBACHER
I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's... DAVID SANBORN It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,&...
PHIL LORD
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.'... JAMES FENTON
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Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that ... JAMES SUROWIECKI
Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show. JOHNNY VAN ZANT A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sin...
GLEN HANSARD
I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work. MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.
BRYAN CLAY
Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one ... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh,... BRIAN ENO You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song a...
AARON LAZAR
Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring. STEPHANIE SIGMAN To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin...
BARRY MANILOW
Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I d... TORI KELLY Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world a...
FELICIA DAY It's been a decade since I've been in that situation. Since Pop Warner.
CHARLIE WHITEHURST I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far mor...
SYD BARRETT
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it'... TATIANA MASLANY It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a d...
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CASEY ABRAMS
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