Crafts Quote by Tom T. Hall Download Open image “Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.” — Tom T. Hall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Songwriting Talent
Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience. — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing. — Jo Stafford Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it. — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said:… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/ But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine” — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class,… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image