“Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.”
Bible
“There's no insecurity about my song writing. I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”
Johnny Cash
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.”
John Lennon
“Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head”
Robert Fulton Abernethy
“I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to.”
Willie Nelson
“I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”
Anne Rice
