#wrote

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#album #course #forced #great #know

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#be true #been #either #felt #i

When I wrote "Green, Green," it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#i #life #like #my life #philosophically

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#around #because #being #books #both

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#did #entertain #guy #i #kidding

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#fit #i #me #more #my own

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bruce #characters #clooney #doing #everyone

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole #cole porter #four #goes #hits

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole porter #enough #first #five #george

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. ↗

— James Merrill

#couple #i #novel #plays #trying