Quotes by Gin Wigmore - Page 1

I don't think I'm a diva.
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Think
Diva
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You can't go round looking like a rag.
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Round
Rag
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I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.
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Cowboy
Past Life
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I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.
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Aguilera
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Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.
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Black
Black Sheep
Describe
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People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.
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Intimidating
I Am People More
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I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.
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Homemaker
Feel Like I Feel Like
Domesticated
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It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.
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Easy
Listening
Live Performance
Real
Record
Performance
Personal
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No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.
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Songwriting
Attack
Great Place
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I've got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.
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New Zealand
Tickets
Zealand
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I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.
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Gotta
Long Career
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I love the energy in the U.S., you know. Everyone is really psyched. You feel really privileged to be there.
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Privileged
Psyched
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The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.
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Musician
Therapeutic
Best Part
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I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.
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Refreshing
Warm
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When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car.
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Red
Silly
Stupid
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I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it's fun. I'll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.
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Day Job
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That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.
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Perspective
Songwriting
Time Great Look
Great Thing
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I'm just going to tour; that's the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.
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Best Way
Best Me People
Breaking
Focusing
Tour
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I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.
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Beautiful Words
Channeling
Emotion
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Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.
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Honestly
New Zealand
Earn
Types
Zealand
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Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
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Boyfriend
Vengeful
Confident
Freeing
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I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.
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Great People
Great World Me
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When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.
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Appreciate
Honesty
Memphis
Mississippi
Nashville
Blues
Learnt
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I'm a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs - and everyone does - you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.
Gin Wigmore /
Believer
Deserve
Eight
Paid
Bar
Big Believer
Gig
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I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.
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Remember When
Subject Matter
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I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.
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Denver
Favourite
Gray
Huge
David
Loved
Discovered
John
Les
Les Miserables
Listened
Musicals
Simon
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That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.
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Thousand
Awesome
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You break up, and you say something pathetic, or you don't even speak at all when someone's telling you they don't love you anymore. But then you think about it five minutes later, and you have all these great comebacks!
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Break Up
Comeback
Love You
Pathetic
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My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something's too fresh, you can't quite word it.
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Dying
Supporter
Music Dad Me
About A Year
Properly
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I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.
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Attention Span
Stuck
Time Music Me
Long Period
Short Attention Span
Span
Stayed
The Only Thing
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I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.
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Communicate
Cried
Gin
Looking Back
Miserable
Skills
Social Skills
Me Remember Looking
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I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.
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Down The Road
Hallelujah
Love Music Me
Love Music Joy
First Place
Opinions
Originally
Remain
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I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.
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Callous
Fingers
Grit
Guarded
Hiding
Including
Business Man World
Named
Bring
Chap
Emotions
Harry
Plays
Raw
Tightly
Tom
Wore
Wrestle
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