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“Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.”

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“She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more like 'This is how it's done here. It turned her off - not specific people, but the whole system turned her off. And she wanted to do something, I think, that she could play for her friends in Texas and they would say, Okay, well you're still Miranda.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Stills Done Play Whole Wanted Okay Songwriting Texas Songwriters Miranda

Author:Frank Liddell

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”

May Said Deceiving

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

“Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.”

Path Conformity Rebel Conform Conformist Non Conformity

Author:Paul Vixie

“The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.”

Men Music Decided Musical Bass Anna Berserk When A Man Loves A Woman Aftershave

Author:Sue Margolis

“Art does not explain.”

Doe Art Music

Author:Chuck Cannon

“The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.”

Way Want Play Shows Running Beautiful Sound Lines Music Elements Jazz Extremes Appeals Showing Off Lyrical Virtuoso

Author:Gavin Bryars

“When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.”

Firsts Grief Music Poet Longing Singers Description Elegant Weavers

Book:The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

Source: The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

“What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order.”

Source: The Spanish Bow

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