"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow."

-- Cole Porter

#Song Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.
“I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.”
“It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.”

Source : "Memorias de Fouche" by Joseph Fouché, 1824.
“There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.”

Source : Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing
“Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.”
“I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.”

Source : "Promised Land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.
“Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."”
“In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever.”

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