I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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Related Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would ... CARLY SIMON My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the s... ESPERANZA SPALDING I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, w... AARON SORKIN If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&... JAMIE BLACKLEY I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... PAUL SIMON I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. NATALIE MERCHANT I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn... BRUCE COCKBURN I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I... KATY PERRY If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the ... TOM SCHOLZ When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How... TOM GLAZER He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work... CHARLIE PUTH We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at s... KRISTIN DAVIS I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everyt... KATHY MATTEA When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress... LEA MICHELE Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was i... JAMIE MUIR I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... SHAILENE WOODLEY Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ... MAYA ANGELOU Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely le... ADAM RAYNER People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is... GABRIELLE APLIN I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ide... SAM SHEPARD My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage w... JOHN ZORN I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put... WALTON GOGGINS I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and i... MEGHAN O'ROURKE For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and ju... KAREN MCDOUGAL I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put ... PAUL O'GRADY It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON 'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit... JASON FUCHS I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing.... BARNEY ROSS I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l... IAN FRAZIER I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord p... DUNCAN SHEIK A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else ... ALEKSANDAR HEMON Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn... KATHERINE JENKINS I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my... CAMILA CABELLO I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect somethin... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it toge... ELLIE GOULDING I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would l... DAVID GILMOUR With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w... SHARON DRAPER I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just... MIKE POSNER Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, '... ALEX TURNER I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and me... KATHERINE HEIGL I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that ... AL YANKOVIC If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marria... CAROL ANN DUFFY If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ... HANS ZIMMER We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've... ALI SMITH I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&... EMMA ROBERTS I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi... STEVIE WONDER It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it w... WILLIAM WYLER Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber,... JOHNNY MATHIS I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. Bu... AVICII For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke... JEAN NIDETCH The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going hom... SLOANE CROSLEY The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, a... J. K. ROWLING I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the do... GEENA DAVIS I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would... TROMBONE SHORTY If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music th... DAVID GILMOUR I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,... COLM TOIBIN I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never... DARRYL PINCKNEY There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar... ANDY SUMMERS Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the mov... ZACH BRAFF Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consist... BO BICE Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would lis... ALAN MOORE If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe... JAMES HETFIELD I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I... KEHLANI We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics. TRAVIS BARKER My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song toge... TOM PETTY The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I r... BOBBY BOWDEN I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take... HAYLEY KIYOKO One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i... NATALIE COLE I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who... CARMEN EJOGO I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa... IMELDA MAY When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting... SIMON HOGGART There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven'... MALCOLM WILSON I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write ab... LOUIS L'AMOUR I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and ... LYKKE LI Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write.... TOMMY LEE I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean... ALEXEI SAYLE I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be somet... FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my be... CAROL BURNETT Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Gr... IAN AXEL I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'... KATE DICAMILLO I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebod... GAVIN ROSSDALE Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?'... SUE TOWNSEND My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don... CAM One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to peo... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously writ... ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying ... SCHOOLBOY Q There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians ... DR. DRE My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full o... ROBERT SCHUMANN I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me ... CHRIS COLFER I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy ... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if... KIRSTIE ALLEY I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ... BUZZ OSBORNE I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'... SETH ROGEN If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER
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SAMMY SOSA I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. SAMMY SOSA I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be... SAMMY SOSA It's always an honor to represent your country. SAMMY SOSA I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every ... SAMMY SOSA I don't want to get fat. SAMMY SOSA You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening... SAMMY SOSA My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for th... SAMMY SOSA I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break. SAMMY SOSA Make yourself comfortable in everything you do. SAMMY SOSA I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportun... SAMMY SOSA If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more. SAMMY SOSA I'm not a racist. SAMMY SOSA I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town. SAMMY CAHN I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song. SAMMY CAHN Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous... SAMMY CAHN My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love... SAMMY CAHN Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. SAMMY CAHN I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to... SAMMY CAHN Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three C... SAMMY CAHN The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Sim... SAMMY CAHN Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. ... SAMMY CAHN I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He'... SAMMY SOSA Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the rig... SAMMY SOSA We grew up together, graduated together and he died trying to save my brother. SAMMY LOZANO The popular song is America's greatest ambassador. SAMMY CAHN Sometimes the church talks about singleness as if it were similar to being chosen for Hufflepuff by ... SAMMY RHODES Whether a person is important but more important to be a good person SAMMY SENDOW I'm not even thinking about passing McGwire. The season will be over September twenty-seventh. Mark ... SAMMY SOSA When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. SAMMY SOSA Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right t... SAMMY SOSA Everyone knows that what happened to me is great, but at the other side I care about winning. I care... SAMMY SOSA I feel great. I feel lucky to be back and not have to watch the games on TV anymore. When you're a c... SAMMY SOSA No, I don't. SAMMY SOSA That doesn't make any sense, but I guess everything I say is a headline. SAMMY SOSA I don't know what he's talking about. I was surprised when I got here and people told me about it. I... SAMMY SOSA People were talking (stuff), knowing nothing. They don't know I feel. Why am I going to be hiding f... SAMMY SOSA I always acted like a man and also treated [Hendricks] with respect, ... I feel disappointed he'd sa... SAMMY SOSA I didn't have the season that I wanted to have because I changed leagues and had a lot of adjustment... SAMMY SOSA Those are some of the best players ever to play the game, ... It's not a record that's easy to attai... SAMMY SOSA I thought he was Michael Jordan, SAMMY SOSA That was everything right there, SAMMY SOSA A hit is a hit, ... any time. SAMMY SOSA There's nothing to talk about. I hit it pretty hard, but that's the way it is. SAMMY SOSA I feel pain but not that much pain, ... It was right under the nail and right in the middle. That's ... SAMMY SOSA I want to thank you all for making the signs, SAMMY SOSA In the time that I was there I respected everyone, ... I'm hurt that someone would say that. I ask m... SAMMY SOSA I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break. SAMMY SOSA I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day.... SAMMY SOSA I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging ... SAMMY SOSA My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs. SAMMY SOSA I'm not frustrated. I go out there and try to do the things that I have to do every day, work hard a... SAMMY SOSA He's going to make some plays. That's Randy Moss. Hopefully we can contain him and we did that at th... SAMMY KNIGHT We didn't hit the ball well tonight, but we did get the hits when we needed them. No matter what it ... SAMMY DAY An audit was done last year by Professor U Africa, which revealed that academic exclusion was racist... SAMMY MASHITA Before the merger, the Westville campus had a minimum registration fee of R2000. Now UKZN has increa... SAMMY MASHITA Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just ... SAMMY MORRIS After he stabbed Jorge, he jumped on top of me and stuck me in the back. SAMMY LOZANO [Neither Dusty Baker or Sammy Sosa would comment on their closed-door meeting, prompted by Baker's e... SAMMY SOSA I'm real happy my name is in the record book, but it means nothing because we lost. SAMMY SOSA I'm not thinking about that, but I'm not going to lie to you - I'm having a good time. SAMMY SOSA To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got... SAMMY SOSA You never know what can happen. We both have a lot of chances to break it. I'm not thinking about br... SAMMY SOSA I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me rea... SAMMY SOSA Outside of the Yankees, who could take on such a gamble? You don't know if he'll ever be Sammy Sosa ... SAMMY SOSA C'mon dude, walking even hurts. A couple of days back it was very ugly and painful. It was right und... SAMMY SOSA You can repeat lies of others without hesitation Because, you don’t have to give justificatio... SAMMY TOORA While the loss for the year is unfortunate, we remain quite upbeat about the future of the corporati... SAMMY LEE I'm so scared. The city gotta do something, you know. This cannot happen every couple of years. SAMMY KIM I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. G... SAMMY GRAVANO But we did a good job of keying on the other guys who might have hurt us and contained them. SAMMY MEJIA That team was a lot more than those two. We expect them to field a good team this year. SAMMY MCCORMICK We're looking forward to the challenge. If we relax and play, and execute, we should be fine. We pla... SAMMY WEST The ultimate mystery is one's own self. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. You don't swing where you sleep. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some frien... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage a... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big,... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could nev... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to ... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they th... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with you... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch ... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this count... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to... SAMMY DAVIS JR. Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with you... SAMMY DAVIS JR. You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I have to be a star like another man has to breathe. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. The ultimate mystery is one's own self. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch ... SAMMY DAVIS JR. Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect few... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy n... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch ... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen... SAMMY DAVIS JR. You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy n... SAMMY DAVIS JR. Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could nev... SAMMY DAVIS JR. The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do ... SAMMY TOORA POWERLIFTER The ultimate mystery is one's own self. SAMMY DAVIS JR. We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay... SAMMY DAVIS JR. Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. 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