Quotes with song-writing

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  • Barry Mann If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Anne Tyler If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Wes Craven If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
    Wes Craven
    American filmmaker, actor, and novelist (1939 - 2015)
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  • Brantley Gilbert If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Stephen King If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Candice Millard If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Leo Burnett If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Anais Nin If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Arthur Brisbane If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • A. N. Wilson If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Bjork In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Billy Joel In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Will Rogers In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Alanis Morissette In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Alex Haley In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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