Business Quote by David Berman

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer…

— Clement Greenberg

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited…

— Janis Ian

I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow into more…

— John K. Samson

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about…

— Bonnie Raitt

As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me…

— Jennifer Egan

My view is that the great songwriting happened between 1920 and 1960. We're all, in our different ways, descended from the great songwriters of that era.

— Leslie Bricusse

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the…

— Keren Ann

You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at…

— Seth

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda…

— John Prine

I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to look at…

— Darren Hayes

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

— Carlos Condit