"I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark."

-- Chris Hillman

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Editing Quotes

“I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.”
“My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.”
“Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.”
“Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.”
“The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue. No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries. How foolish.”
“Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.”
“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
“I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.”

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