Best quotes by Amanda Shires on Work

Checkout quotes by Amanda Shires on Work

• ‟ I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.

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• ‟ In the past, I was free to write in quiet and in the space wherever my desk was at. I could leave my instruments out. In the past, my writing was super private; I never liked showing my work at its earliest stages.

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• ‟ I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.

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• ‟ I don't know if you've ever shown anyone your work before you're done with it, but it can be very uncomfortable.

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• ‟ It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

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• ‟ Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.

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