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These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I… — Ani DiFranco
I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's… — Dolly Parton
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the… — Tom T. Hall
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I… — James Taylor
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:… — Jorma Kaukonen
What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to… — Unknown Author
I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It… — Fred Eaglesmith
You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft,… — Fred Eaglesmith
Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just… — Etgar Keret
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. — Robert Browning
If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better. — Jim Rohn
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded… — David Crosby
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in… — Agnes Martin
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. — Owen Feltham
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth… — Alfred North Whitehead
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow — Kate Winslet
Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything. — Ted Sizer
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. — Sarah Caldwell
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a… — Suzanne Vega
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything… — David Cronenberg
When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street… — Tom Waits
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the… — Iron & Wine

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