Musician Quotes

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

Love is the reason you were born.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

I didn't really want to give up music.