#rite

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#cold #dull #epigrams #experiences #fixed

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#comes #give #give me #good #i

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#big #collectively #i #individual #like

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. ↗

— Ice T

#cats #hip #hip hop #hop #i

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#cry #deal #far #horrible #i

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ↗

— James Taylor

#guitar #i #itself #music #present

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. ↗

— James Taylor

#could #i #out #pretending #songwriter

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. ↗

— James Taylor

#go #here #i #lyric #make

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical. ↗

— James Taylor

#almost #come #comes #may #melancholy

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home. ↗

— Paul Taylor

#comes #could #down #get #happen