Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
I'd Love to Write Another Song
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
A Season of Changes
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
I'd Love to Write Another Song
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
“I don't intend to write depressing songs and I'd probably rather write happy ones”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
in Spongey Monkey #3.
“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Jason Mraz (1977) American singer-songwriter
[Christina, Fuoco, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7600127/jason_mraz_goes_to_school, Jason Mraz Goes to School, Rolling Stone, 2 September 2007, 2007-09-28]
“If Michael Jackson could write a song for a rat, I could write a song for [my pet bulldog] Noelle.”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
contactmusic.com (December 14, 2005)
2007, 2008
“If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.”
Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist
Hank Williams (1923–1953) American country music singer
Gleason, Ralph (06-28-1969). 1952 interview of Hank Williams. Rolling Stone.
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) Russian and Soviet writer
Foma Gordeyev (1899) [also translated as The Man Who Was Afraid; the English music group Led Zeppelin would later name their record label "Swan Song".
Context: There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
“If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Quoted in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986), p. 281