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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

  

  Kesha
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Writing

• An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Homeless

• For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

  

  Alejandro Zambra
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Things

• The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • See
  • Hears

• I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Up
  • Character
  • Rocky

• I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • Help

• 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