I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.
Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.
It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness. . . The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration. . . a focusing of the attention in a special way.
I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
[I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.