#rite

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#each #i #instrumentalist #string #try

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. ↗

— Barry Mann

#innate #most #probably #songwriters #songwriting

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#cannot #fight #his #i #imagine

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#any #anymore #enough #good #healthiest

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#flavor #get #i #piano #songs

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. ↗

— Barry Mann

#alcohol #become #big #fear #how

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #bipartisan #came #controlled #deficit

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#hard #very #writer

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#does #everybody #half #mind #new

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. ↗

— Karl Marx

#earn #live #making #making money #means