Tom Conti (Thomas Antonio Conti) Quotes

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

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• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Done

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Composer
  • Satisfying

• Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Good
  • Song
  • Christmas

• Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Night

• Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Writing
  • Pregnancy

• For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

  

  Bjork
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• 'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Song

• I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Country

• I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

  

  Brian Van Holt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think my main two songs are 'FWU' and 'Get Away.' 'FWU' made a cool point because it came out right after Chris Brown's 'Loyal' came out. I combated it with 'FWU,' a song that basically says, 'These women are loyal.'

  

  Kehlani
  • Women
  • Song
  • Cool

• You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

  

  Paullina Simons
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Writing

• I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me, and they're still coming from my brain and my set of obsessions. I think that no matter how different I tried to make them, there were just these certain questions that I just kept circling back to as I was writing. I think they were the ones I was really swept up in in that decade.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Looking

• Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • God
  • Men
  • Fighting

• Shopping is better than sex. At least if you're not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Sex
  • Shopping
  • Black Friday

• I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Havens