Albums Quote by Nat Hentoff

Way back in my mid-20s, I started making notes. I would just jot things down: lists of street names, songs, peculiar turns of speech,…

— Frank McCourt

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the…

— Neil Strauss

I write folky tunes, like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.

— Noah Reid

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

— Michael Wolff

I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.

— Paolo Nutini

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

— Eddie Trunk

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

— Chuck Berry

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

— Jill McCorkle

I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take…

— Courtney Barnett

I write tunes about what people say, whatever they say.

— Fats Domino

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting…

— Mandy Moore