"Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song."

-- Jackson Browne

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“Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

Source : Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK
“I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.”
“The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.143
“I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.”
“The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.”
“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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