Inspirational Quote by Paul Simon

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to…

— Lawrence Kushner

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.…

— Conor Oberst

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really…

— Paul Simon

Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised…

— Paul Simon

Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up when you…

— Mike Campbell

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are…

— Lights

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking…

— Tom Waits

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin