Childbirth Quote by Billy Joel Download Open image “I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?” — Billy Joel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childbirth Compare Kids Songwriting Uterus
You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring. — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or… — Kelis Copy Share Image
“I want to write a song based on my own childbirth. Of course, this is all a bit premature.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. — Dave Grohl Copy Share
I've been writing songs ever since I can remember. As I was in fetal position, I was etching songs into my mom's placenta. — Skrillex Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy and birth.… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious! — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs. — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth. — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“Birth is experiential. You have to experience it to fully know it. An exercise such as Bellydance for birth embraced during pregnancy can act… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image