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You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a… — Irving Berlin
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said… — Lou Reed
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few… — Alexander Hamilton
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Follow your heart and you won't get lost. — Brett Dennen
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be… — John F. Kennedy
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark… — Jack Kerouac
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are. — Jack Smith
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon
The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music… — David Crosby
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling… — Marian McPartland
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose… — Brandi Carlile
I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something.… — Butch Hancock
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? — William J. Clinton
I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while. — Jennifer Lynch
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise… — Wayne Dyer
True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't… — Samuel Goldwyn
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. — Clarence Day
I don't appreciate the disrespect, because I've been playing hurt for a guy who won't respect you. I don't deserve it...It's time for me to… — Melvin Mora

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