"Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works."
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"When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual."
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"One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same."
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"I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs."
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"The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me."
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"There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound."
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"If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it."
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"Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being."
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"If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use."
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"These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'"
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"I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the vernacular of work into poems. I'm also writing some poems about family. And I don't know, just writing. Taking breaks. Writing some more."
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"There is no plummet to sound another's soul."
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"She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea."
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"People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense."
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"Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?""
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"I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain."
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"It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it."
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"I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them."
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"Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point."
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"My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter..."
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