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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.


Naima Adedapo

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COCO LEE I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They'r...
BENNY BLANCO I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and...
AMY WINEHOUSE A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I ...
CAMILA CABELLO If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to w...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn&#...
AUDREY HEPBURN I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped...
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'...
CAROLINE LEAVITT I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
BILL WITHERS When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to expr...
EL DEBARGE She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo recor...
SAMMY HAGAR What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi...
CAROL BURNETT I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib...
NATALIE MERCHANT If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
NAIMA ADEDAPO 'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female box...
RICHARD MATHESON Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a so...
ANDREA BOCELLI I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is u...
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
DAVE HAYWOOD I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't li...
ESTELLE FANTA SWARAY What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old la...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
AMANDA BURTON I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because...
BARRY MCGUIRE If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ...
ASTRO I'm going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to...
DHANUSH I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm goin...
CHARLI XCX I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna plea...
KID ROCK I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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GERRY COONEY If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that ...
CHARLIE DANIELS When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five ...
ETTA JAMES I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t...
JERRY SPINELLI I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should...
DARIUS RUCKER Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
CARLY SIMON If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
WES CRAVEN It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every d...
MERYL STREEP A Ritual to Read to Each Other


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WILLIAM STAFFORD Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to sta...
BRUCE STERLING I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can w...
MATTHEW QUICK To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
JIMMY IOVINE And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
SALLY KELLERMAN I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it...
OLLY MURS I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our liv...
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TODD PHILLIPS I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - y...
FANTASIA BARRINO If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui...
KINA GRANNIS I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, i...
LAUREN WILLIG I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what...
ADELE I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
VICTOR CRUZ I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always come...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ...
LISA LOEB Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write ou...
BEN E. KING I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a...
KIESZA I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I j...
SIA You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything....
JASON ALDEAN When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't yo...
AARON NEVILLE It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
CEELO GREEN Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
ALBERTA HUNTER I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intui...
ALDEN EHRENREICH I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I&#...
JENNY LEWIS I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at ka...
SAMANTHA BARKS If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
NAMIE AMURO How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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NIALL FERGUSON I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn...
MAEVE BINCHY I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.
JONATHAN AMES I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm g...
ED SHEERAN I am particular about the seating of the audience-also about how much money they pay-but most of all...
NINA SIMONE It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.
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TANYA TUCKER There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there ar...
RANDY HOUSER I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I ca...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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