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The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. ↗

— Jimmy Webb

#making money #money #ones #own #people

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. ↗

— Noah Webster

#christian #christian religion #citizens #correct #desire

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

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...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#writing-poetry #art

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones. ↗

— Dean Ween

#dozen #good #good ones #least #ones

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#back #blind #bring #calls #challenge

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#chops #completely #develop #different #driven

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#ask #come #go #hit #hit single

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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