Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
Gin Wigmore
Related Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintert... LINUS TORVALDS It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that directio... MARK ZUCKERBERG I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People... NATE RUESS Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really. KATE BUSH In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on... KARL MARLANTES Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the ... VIRGIL THOMSON It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all... WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is... JAMES D'ARCY Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. DAMON ALBARN I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the... MEGAN FOX Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it. AIDAN QUINN If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting ba... MADHURI DIXIT Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a ... BRYAN GREENBERG All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a w... KRISTEN BELL Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ... OLIVIA D'ABO Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'... SHANIA TWAIN It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music... MIRIAM MAKEBA There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is... DOLLY WELLS It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing s... MANIKA You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens ... CONOR OBERST Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. ... ALISON SWEENEY Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a go... BEAR GRYLLS And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of co... PETER CAREY When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involvin... MICHAEL AZERRAD I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. Thes... TEMPLE GRANDIN I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters t... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world. BIG BOI It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. Ther... RICKY SKAGGS It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles. LUKE WILSON Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of mu... KAREN FAIRCHILD It's not such a bad thing. It's a nice billboard, and the township is getting paid a rental fee for ... BILL GRAY Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me ... BILL KREUTZMANN The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very cl... BILL AYERS Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure... JUANES I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is goi... VINCE FLYNN For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think tha... JAMEELA JAMIL I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the... MERYL STREEP I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that... KAREN GILLAN It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want ... DEREK HOUGH I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' ... MARTIN FREEMAN One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change fr... DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER There's nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year's Eve. It's such ... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are ... DAVID LYNCH You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent i... ERIC SAN If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's ... JEREMY CLARKSON English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, i... YAEL NAIM Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? ... MEGAN MULLALLY Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the w... AL JARREAU In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, b... DANNY ELFMAN Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you ... SEAN LENNON A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having anoth... ROY BLOUNT, JR. Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one ... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top o... BECKY G I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top o... BECKY G I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei... LARRY NORMAN I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can d... VINCENT CASSEL I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans bac... ALISON BRIE When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. LAWRENCE It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort o... JENS LEKMAN I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really... ABBY ELLIOTT I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the pola... COLIN O'DONOGHUE In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who... IAN ANDERSON One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favo... BEAR GRYLLS It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage. DARIO FO Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir... LAURA OSNES I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-... TATIANA MASLANY All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very ... SAMANTHA FOX I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens... EARL SWEATSHIRT Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of... C. K. WILLIAMS There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho... CLIVE DAVIS I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds suc... NATALIE ZEA Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a b... TERRY TEACHOUT One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I... ALLISON WILLIAMS If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea... DAVID BYRNE I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so muc... OLIVIA CULPO It's definitely a good way to stay in touch with your fans. The main reason I really use Instagr... TOM HOLLAND Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin... PATRICK KANE It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the inte... DAMIAN MARLEY The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got th... JIMI HENDRIX Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have... FAY WELDON And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is t... MIRIAM MAKEBA Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca... TOM LANDRY Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exer... ANTHONY CARMONA Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject... MIKE D It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things ... TAYLOR DYE Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, peo... SNOOP DOGG If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good musi... LUKE BRYAN No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember ... TREY PARKER There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed. BILLY HIGGINS I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... KEVIN GATES Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where pe... JOHN OATES The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you ... DAVEED DIGGS The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. COMPAY SEGUNDO I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting ... DAVID HEMMINGS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. CAROLINE LEAVITT
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