#ears

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

#come #distance #enough #jump #need

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over. ↗

— Keren Ann

#hour #just #live #many #once

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#along #around #decades #feel #give

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years. ↗

— Adam Ant

#guitar #i #may #minute #pen

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#better #choose #date #engaged #first

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#before #chances #did #does #eight

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#best #boston #especially #even #few

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#dad #dependent #fact #family #father

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquisition #although #been #century #chinese

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#along #did #feel #floating #go