About Quote by Hunter Hayes

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

— David Byrne

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

— Paul Goodman

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing…

— Marilyn Hacker

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process…

— Paul Goodman

“I can’t translate myself into language any more.”

— Alice Notley

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil in changes.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow…

— Elmore Leonard

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can…

— Kathy Mattea