“I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.” KnowsGivingJobsArtistSongGrowsWatchesFineInvolvedGive MeExcuseCreditBitterExposure Author:Rico Love
“What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?” StillsDoneSongHalfAliveCapitalismDefeatBitterDecayDisillusion Book:The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
“Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.” GivingYearsChildrenMightSongPrayingLoversGive MeCloudsRussiaBitterMysteriousMy ChildrenGloriousSicknessRaysInsomniaI PrayFeverLiturgyMy Lover Book:A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova Source: A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova
“I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.” WayWritingCountryFeelingsKidsSongTurnsDarkInfluenceHugeBrilliantCleverBitterObsessedPhrasesPun Author:Teddy Thompson
“Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.” PeopleWorldShouldSongLeftGivenBlackPerfectFindingsWeaponsCreditBitterPhenomenonBitternessHolocaustBitter People Author:Nikki Giovanni