"A rhyme doesn't make a song."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

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"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

Gene Clark, American Musician

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"We became the songs we wrote."

Barry Mann, American Musician

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"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."

Father

"If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show."

Success

"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."

Music

"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."

Work

"We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it."

Help

"Love is the reason you were born."

Love

"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."

Word

"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."

Music

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"

Music

"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money."

Money