Ann Reed Quotes

United States, Singer-Songwriter
December 1, 1954

Ann Reed is an American singer-songwriter and guitar player from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is one of the few women guitarists who primarily play the twelve-string guitar.

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Ann Reed
- Question
- Lazy
- Rhyme
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Ann Reed
- Words
- Songs
- Poem

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

Ann Reed
- Song
- Reality
- Result
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time... the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.

Ann Reed
- Writing
- Song
- Hard