"I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics. Sometimes, the song is there and I have to make the melody fit. What I've learned so far about songwriting is that I can't force a song. If I try to do that, it's hollow, and people know a hollow song when they hear it. It's the song they stop listening to and forget about. I'd prefer not to write those kinds of songs."

-- Kasey Anderson

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.”
“Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.315, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The dominant expression of a child is gravity.”
“I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.”

Source : Ernest Rhys (1918). “The Leaf Burners: And Other Poems”
“Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.”
“I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.”
“In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.”
“I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.”

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