Chuck Mangione Quotes
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.Chuck Mangione
Quotes to Explore
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
Ian Doescher -
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Rachel Johnson -
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
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 -
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan -
There are no rules to writing a song.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
Taylor Swift -
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
J. Michael Straczynski -
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor Swift -
It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
Halsey
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
Kate Thompson -
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 -
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 -
When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
Jack Dorsey -
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
Damon Galgut -
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
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Irwin Shaw -
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.
Geoff Zanelli -
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps -
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.
Billie Eilish -
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Chuck Mangione