"We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it."

--

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

Cynthia Weil

#Creativity Quotes #Creative Quotes #Figures Quotes

“Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.”
“There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.”
“Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.”
“Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.”
“The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.”
“If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. You'd use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce Willis movies!”
“Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.”

Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.”

Source : John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

You may also like:

Barry Mann
Songwriter
Carole King
Singer
David Foster
Musician
James Horner
Film Score Composer
Laura Berman
Sex Educator
Lionel Richie
Singer-songwriter
Phil Spector
Record producer
Jake Epstein
Actor
Jeff Barry
Songwriter