Tracey Thorn quotes

“I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are 'go-to' songwriters that people choose.”
-- Tracey Thorn

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of listeners, which is great, but on the other hand they start to pigeonhole you a little bit.”
-- Tracey Thorn

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“To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.”
-- Tracey Thorn

#Together Quotes #Musician Quotes #Band Quotes

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan

“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.”

“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”

“Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”

“It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.”