Brandon Webb Quotes

Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

Brandon Webb

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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Vision

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• 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
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • Bus

• It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Sitting
  • Reactions

• The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Democracy

• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Great
  • Age
  • Service

• Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time.

  

  Chris LeDoux
  • Time
  • Work

• My parents migrated to Phoenix, AZ, in the '80s, and I watched them work tirelessly to provide for me and my siblings as they encouraged us to pursue our dreams.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Phoenix

• Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Writing