Cynthia Weil Quotes

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.