- Nov 07, 2020
Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to write to a beat that I'm not immediately loving.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another label. Then I got picked up by Sony publishing. So I was writing professionally from 16 to 18. Then I started making my own records.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer songs. If I write 10 songs I believe 80 percent of them are good and gonna be used.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I came to acting quite late, I kind of think one of the few attributes that I do have is that I try to be honest with the character, with the writing. I'm not a tricksy actor; I'm not exactly a scenery-chewing kind of actor.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the same kinds of stories.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist at first, but I gradually fell in love with all these great writers like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, who were at the peak of their powers then.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020