"Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes."

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Source : "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#Song Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.”

Source : Harper’s Magazine, September 1999.
“Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.”
“Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press
“O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.148, Indiana University Press
“Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.”
“Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
“One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.”

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