#tryin

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#cause #clubs #different #england #following

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. ↗

— George Carlin

#been #dust #established #example #fact

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything. ↗

— Drew Carey

#change #change the world #get #i #just

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention. ↗

— Howie Carr

#attention #complex #dependency #increase #paying

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#genre #i #music #rap #trying

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#best #critic #find #i #me

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#guitar players #like #players #record #tones

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#clothes #day #dealing #definitely #elements

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees