Thomston Quotes

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• I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Creating

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• When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

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  People, Would Be, Come Up

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• I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

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  Writing, Chance, Music Is

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• If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

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  Song, Thinking, Would Be

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• For me, I need people who will respect my vision and will back it and won't go changing things without letting me know. I would love some people who I feel like I could work with on a personal level as well.

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  People, Vision, Needs

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• I'd gotten to a point where I would write a lyric and then delete it because I was worried about how it sounded. Pretty much, I was a dreadful person and It was just a way of dealing with feeling kind of guilty about that.

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  Writing, Feelings, Way

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• I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

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  Song, Cat, Thinking

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• The thing is, is that I hate theatre, but it was how I learnt to sing.

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  Hate, Theatre, I Hate

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• As long as I can sustain myself and as long as people like what I am doing and are happy to support me to continue, that is success in my eyes.

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  Eye, Long, People

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• I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.

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  Successful, Musician, Done

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• I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My musical upbringing was show-tunes and it sucks and I have been trying to get away from it ever since.

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  Community Theatre, Musical, Trying

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• I feel like success is really subjective. You could win a school talent show and be like "I was successful", or you could get a Number One in New Zealand and be like "I was successful', or you could win a Grammy and be like "I was successful".

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  School, Successful, Winning

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• My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.

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  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• Acting is fun. I enjoy it, but there is just not many opportunities to do it on a serious level. It is kind of either bad community musicals, or if you are lucky enough to be cast in something serious. I feel like you really have to be going after it, and for me I am a little bit distracted.

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  Fun, Opportunity, Community

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• The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

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  Would Be, Labels, Passive

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• There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

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  Art, Balance, Doe

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• Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

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  Elements, Film, Dialogue

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• I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

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  Couple, Piano, Owl

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• In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

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  Focus, Hook, Pops

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• I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Everyday

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• I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

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  Keys, Nuts, Things I Love

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• I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes on my phone. I often come up with a phrase that I really like, I write it down and it stays in my notes folder, and when I'm writing I will scroll through and see if it kind of fits and if I can mould a verse around it.

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  Song, Writing, Phones

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• As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel like it is a little bit egotistical to be like, "I hope they are a better person after listening to my song."

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  Song, Taken, Writing

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• I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place, where they say things like, "I don't write for other people, I write for myself," and I feel like that misses the mark so much because music, especially pop music, is so much more than yourself.

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  Writing, People, Missing

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• I write in a bunch of different ways, but my favourite way is to walk around my neighbourhood at ridiculous hours, like 2am. I feel like the movement helps me clear my thoughts so I can just get all of the words out and type them onto my phone.

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  Writing, Phones, Different

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