#ideas

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#candidates #debate #directly #exchange #facilitate

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#common #common sense #his #ideas #mental

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#ideas #making #new #new ideas #new ways

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#fresh #give #give me #i #ideas

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#great #great ideas #ideas #occupied #performs

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ↗

— Jose Marti

#despite #down #fair #hills #hinder

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ↗

— Jose Marti

#go #i #ideas #mistresses #others

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#duties #great #great ideas #ideas #performs

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next? ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#coming #doing #edits #everything #final