Anzia Yezierska Quotes

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

Anzia Yezierska

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• You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Think
  • Song
  • Know

• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Start

• I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Black
  • Grandfather

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Process

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Play

• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• 'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Done
  • Success

• Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Song
  • Choose

• One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Real
  • Song
  • Goals

• I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Area

• Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Book

• An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Writing
  • Done

• After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Writing
  • Home

• When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Writing
  • History
  • Past

• The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Job
  • Soul
  • Song

• Only joy comes from song.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Song
  • Joy

• I am a very thorough person.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Thorough

• When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Innocent

• I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

  

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Fought

• Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Lifeline