#tryin

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barrel #bottom #felt #get #i

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name. ↗

— Paula Cole

#am #cole #find #i #i always

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bypass #doing #even #everything #find

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#album #always #doing #hope #i

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#because #even #feel #fiction #functioning

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down. ↗

— David Copperfield

#choices #clothing #down #ever #gay

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#conflict #direct #i #point #reached

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#get #i #paper #remember #something