Quotes by Writing I got called to write for Aerosmith, nothing ever came of it, but I ended up spending the day with Steven Tyler and going to his house and we sat down at the piano, just me and him, and he sang for me and played, then he asked me to sing for him, and then we sang harmony together. That was just a big moment where it was like 'oh my god, my life is crazy!' It was really cool. Bonnie McKee pianocrazywriting I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all. Bonnie McKee tv-showstvswriting Obviously I love writing with Katy [Pery], I feel like we're the same person when we write together. Even though we fight a lot, we fight over every line and we pull each other's hair and we cat-fight all the time, it's always worth it in the end. Bonnie McKee catfightingwriting I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album. Bonnie McKee fashionartistwriting I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself. Bonnie McKee differentwritinglittles There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that feeling with a song and it never goes anywhere, that happens all the time too, so you never really know. Bonnie McKee feelingswritingsong Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming." Bonnie McKee blowwritingsong There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes Bonnie Raitt issueswritingwar I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around. Bonnie Raitt artistwritingjobs I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes. Bonnie Wright almodovardialoguewriting I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness. Bono darknesswritingsong U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help. Bono writinghelpingsong No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington workwritinginspirational I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions based on what looks better. Also I write based on what I saw for a video. I obsess over lyrics in the hopes that they'll endure in different ways. I'm very precious about it. Boots Riley decisionwritingpeople I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life. Boots Riley wantwritingsong Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that. Boots Riley writingsongmean During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don't do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That's how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff. Bootsy Collins wallwritingbook It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. Boris Johnson good-lifemediawriting It just happens I write fast and always have done. Boris Johnson donehappenswriting Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. Boris Johnson partywritingbook«164165166167168169170171172173174»
