Shawn Colvin Quotes

• John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

  Shawn Colvin

  Play, Very Inspiring, Wells

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• Without music, I could not get through.

  Shawn Colvin

  Sin música

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• This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

  Shawn Colvin

  Blessing, Reality, Everyday

  Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996

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• When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

  Shawn Colvin

  Attitude, Recovery, Thinking

  Fuente: www.rollingstone.com

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• The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

  Shawn Colvin

  Education, Drag, Knows

  Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996

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• You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

  Shawn Colvin

  Mistake, Unanswered Questions, Life Mistakes

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• I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

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  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• It's really fun to listen to other people and be an accompanist.

  Shawn Colvin

  Fun, People, Accompanists

  Fuente: www.washingtontimes.com

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• The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

  Shawn Colvin

  Past, Forgiving, Stronger

  Song: Shotgun Down the Avalanche, Album: Steady On, 1989

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• I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.

  Shawn Colvin

  Pensar, Gente, Hecho

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• What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

  Shawn Colvin

  Art, Moving, People

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• Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

  Shawn Colvin

  Horse, Healthy, Mental Illness

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

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  Views, Things In Life, Long

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• And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world

  Shawn Colvin

  Blue, Sky, World

  Song: Never Saw Blue Like That

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• I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

  Shawn Colvin

  Guitar, Two, Singing

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• Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

  Shawn Colvin

  Giving, Credit, Politics

  Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996

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• There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

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  Moving, Eagles, Play

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• One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

  Shawn Colvin

  Sticks, Said, Melody

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• I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

  Shawn Colvin

  Song, Writing, Successful

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