Algeria Quotes

When you go through a moment, and you are down and losing your head, it gives you a lot of experience.
When you have quality and show it, there's no problem.
When you have the ball, you are free.
When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.
When you're in an academy, every day you're in at 9 A.M., and it's, 'Do this, do that,' but we just came with our football.
You can be first, and then in six games, you can be 12th. The results can just flip, and everybody can forget.
Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.
As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.
As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.
As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.
As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.
As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.
At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.
Collaboration allows me to challenge myself to find a new passion for music.
Collaboration is a vital part of my creative life. I've had success with Guy Clark and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
Conversation is a really good way to get things done.
Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
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04 April, 1938
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01 September, 1989
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