Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese

He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.

German

Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.

Icelandic

The nightingale will run out of songs before a woman runs out of conversation.

Spanish

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

Cameron Crowe

There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said. "Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it.

The Convert's Song: A Novel

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Eartha Kitt

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

Levon Helm

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

Christian Scott

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

Daniel Smith

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Janelle Monae

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

Nick Cannon

The rooftop of the mouth is where the chest must sing love songs.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Anansi Boys

We are all touched by music. Music connects us.

Read my SONG Read my HEART Read my SOUL

Care: not carnage Love: not loathing Peace: not pieces

The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

The Song of Achilles

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

The Song of Achilles

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Love Songs From A Shallow Grave