"Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best."

-- Juliana Hatfield

#Stupid Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes

“Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und VerklÃ¤rung.”
“I learned to ask myself questions like: Why is something made the way it is? Why does a motorcar look like it does? Is it right or wrong? What is an airplane? Why is it shaped like that? Then, later, I became a diver and studied subaquatic life and the streamlining of sharks and manta rays. Any fish is superior to the shapes we humans have invented - and unchanged for 250 million years, imagine!”
“When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.10, Harper Collins
“I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really midpoint, but a period of her career where she really still had her voice. She had that deep wisdom that we've come to associate her with. To me, that's her at the height of her powers.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate.”

Source : "Pink Floyd Album Designer Storm Thorgerson Dies at 69" by Lakia Young, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2013.
“Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing.”

Source : Marc David (2015). “The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
“Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”

Source : Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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