May Quote by Ben Harper Download Open image “As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.” — Ben Harper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Music Song Songwriters Two Two years Years
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song. — John Legend Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware. — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics. — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's… — Shirley Horn Copy Share Image
When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
