Lucinda Williams famous quotes

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Togetherness #Feels

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Happiness #Happy #Fear

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Voice #Perfect

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for
-- Lucinda Williams

#Inspiration #Waiting #Moments

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Coffee #Writing #Sneakers

I started writing more with my voice in mind.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Writing #Voice #Mind

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Sweet #World

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Writing #Good Enough

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Writing #Stuff #Firsts

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Night #Play #Arena

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Power #Trying #Sound

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Real #Hype #People

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Writing #Crafts #Able

It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Thinking #Long #Done

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Essence #Car

Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Writing #Unrequited Love #Unrequited

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
-- Lucinda Williams

#People #Trying #Different

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Band #Wanted #Materials

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Trying #Looks #Just Being

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Success #Congratulations #Ends

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
-- Lucinda Williams

#People #Spotlight

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Broken Heart #Song #Writing

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Mean #Complaining #Trade

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Glasses #Term

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.
-- Lucinda Williams

#My Boyfriend #Broke Up #More Time

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Commitment #Snakes #Strikes

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Trying

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Age #Saws #Peter

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Change #Song #Thinking

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Mean #Talking #Might

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Ideas #Interesting #World

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Breakup #Song #Inspiration

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Singers #Morris

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Art #World #Offers

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Mean #Artist

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Compassion #Want

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Inspirational #Men #Perfect

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Ideas #Worry #Inspired

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Writing #Together

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)
-- Lucinda Williams

#Rocks #Long #Way

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Art #Self

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Beautiful #Genius #Loser

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Real #Genuine

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Appreciate #Done #Upbringing

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Praise #Process #Criticize

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
-- Lucinda Williams

#People #Crafts #Want

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it
-- Lucinda Williams

#Talking

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Ideas #Sound

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people
-- Lucinda Williams

#Real #Writing #People

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way
-- Lucinda Williams

#Independent #Ideas #People

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Taken #Guitar #Voice

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Holiday #Singing #Sitting

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
-- Lucinda Williams

#Song #Mean #Loss

I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.
-- Lucinda Williams

#Writing #Ideas #Lines