"It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song."

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Source : Kaye Gibbons (1997). “A Virtuous Woman”, p.25, Algonquin Books

Bob Seger

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.”
“What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!”
“The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.”
“You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.”
“It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.”
“If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.”
“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”

Source : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.”

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