Ann Reed famous quotes

Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.
-- Ann Reed

#Needs #World #Moments

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!
-- Ann Reed

#Song #Inspiration #Writing

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
-- Ann Reed

#Writing #Lazy #Rhyme

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
-- Ann Reed

#Song #Writing #Interesting

Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.
-- Ann Reed

#Song #Writing #Feelings

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

Remember you love writing.  It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t.  If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,

You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.