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Grant-Lee Phillips Quotes

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

Grant-Lee Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 1, 1963

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Think Find Inspiration Misery Agree

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

Memories Time New Things Growing Up

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

Long Point Position Uncertain Apart

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

Today Men Tomorrow Place Worship

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.

Today Important First Resources Well

I'm actually really impressed with everyone at Polydor.

Everyone Impressed Actually Really

So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or more copies, and then it often just disappears into this national vacuum.

Work Words Writing Horse You More

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Soul Me Being Front Influenced

The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another.

Time Amazing Me Believe Year Long

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

Success Perception You More Status

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

Time Money End Giving You Giving Up

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

Wynton Marsalis

Progress World Generation Better

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

Change Shadow Strong Climate Change

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