David Massengill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It's important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes a long way.
-- David Massengill

#Song #Writing #Long
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.
-- David Massengill

#Passion #Writing #Stories
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
-- David Massengill

#Writing #Everyday #Caves
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
-- David Massengill

#Believe #Hard Work #Writing
I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.
-- David Massengill

#Song #Mistake #Writing
My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.
-- David Massengill

#Heart #Soul #Duos

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

David Massengill famous quotes

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