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“I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Song Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Successful Quotes
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“The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.”
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Shawn Colvin
Source : Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996
#Education Quotes
#Drag Quotes
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“You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?”
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Shawn Colvin
#Mistake Quotes
#Unanswered Questions Quotes
#Life Mistakes Quotes
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“Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.”
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Shawn Colvin
Source : Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996
#Giving Quotes
#Credit Quotes
#Politics Quotes
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“This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.”
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Shawn Colvin
Source : Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996
#Reality Quotes
#Blessing Quotes
#Everyday Quotes
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“One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Sticks Quotes
#Said Quotes
#Melody Quotes
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“I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Song Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Views Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Healthy Quotes
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“There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Moving Quotes
#Eagles Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Art Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#People Quotes
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“I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Two Quotes
#Guitar Quotes
#Singing Quotes
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“John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Play Quotes
#Very Inspiring Quotes
#Wells Quotes
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“I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.”
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Shawn Colvin
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Done Quotes
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“And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world”
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Shawn Colvin
Source : Song: Never Saw Blue Like That
#Sky Quotes
#Blue Quotes
#Around The World Quotes
