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It is easy to write unthinking music. ↗

— George Crumb

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When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. ↗

— Clive Cussler

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I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

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Writing has never been a driving force within me. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

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I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#certain #certain extent #develop #extent #favourite

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. ↗

— David Cross

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