Neil Diamond Quotes
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.Neil Diamond
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
Wayne Coyne -
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones -
I hate jeans for no reason.
Park Chan-wook -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White -
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis -
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin -
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
Rachel Kushner -
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Barry Mann -
The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
Aaron Johnson -
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica McKellar -
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
RaeLynn -
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
Hakan Nesser -
When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
Flula Borg
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Truly the jaws of irony are agape!
Charles Stross -
Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
George Wither -
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
G. Willow Wilson -
One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.
Leon Russell -
I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.
Brian Molko Placebo -
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
Neil Diamond