Cynthia Weil Quotes

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• That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner…
• Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
• You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style…
• We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
• I wanted to write for Broadway.
• Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
• But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.
• I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
• Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
• When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.
• We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
• That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my…
• The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or…
• She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her…
• My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
• Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
• But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.
• You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody…
• We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little…

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