{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["admiration","art","beauty","comfort","creation","creativity","credit","destiny","humble","indebted","love","low-life","lyrics","music","muzhik","peace","peasant","pest","pleasant","poem","poetry","poverty","praise","relaxation","relief","respect","response","rest","song","songs","songwriting","worker"],"id":5589,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I’ve always thought the best songs come though us not from us…. They gave me life, they gave me an identity and I gave them my tears, my heart, and my truth.","author":"Carole Bayer Sager","tags":["life-and-living","love","music","songwriting"],"id":28220,"author_id":"Carole+Bayer+Sager"},{"text":"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.","author":"Bob Dylan","tags":["autobiography","bob-dylan","lyrics","music","songwriting"],"id":58612,"author_id":"Bob+Dylan"},{"text":"Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["art","creativity","creativity","emotion","expression","music","music","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","songwriting"],"id":63232,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beast","boring","business","generic","lame","lion","lyrics","money","originality","poetry","profit","raw","rhyming","songwriting","tame","untamed","wild","writing"],"id":71100,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Sometimes I just want to paint the words 'It's my fault' across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.","author":"Christina Westover","tags":["all-apologies","anger","blame","burn","christina-westover","enemies","guilt","kurt-cobain","music","songwriting"],"id":74660,"author_id":"Christina+Westover"},{"text":"Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["art","creativity","music","songwriting"],"id":89330,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"... Because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one day, one day, someone out there would hear and recognise her or himself and I could let them know that they are not alone. Just like that song I had on repeat for several nights as I walked lonely on empty streets, let me know that I was notaloneand that’s how it starts.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["alone","art","artist","charlotte-eriksson","childhood","empty-streets","growing-up","growth","inspiration","inspiring","learning","life","lonely","motivation","motivational","music","poetry","prose","self-discovery","song","songwriter","songwriting","the-glass-child","tumblr-writer","writer","writing","youth"],"id":90723,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate ‘-enic’ rhymes are hard to come by.","author":"Stephen Sondheim","tags":["lorenz-hart","lyricism","my-funny-valentine","rhymes","songwriting","valentine","valentine-s-day","valentines","vampire","vampires","vampirism"],"id":94642,"author_id":"Stephen+Sondheim"},{"text":"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["action","adventure","ambition","art","awake","building","chronic","chronic-illness","clever","consciousness","construction","creativity","day","development","discovery","fast-pace","growth","hard-work","hustler","hustlers-ambition","hustling","hypersonic","imagination","improvement","insomnia","life","living","lyrics","night","onyx","phonics","poetry","progression","revealing","rhyming","sacrifice","sleep","sleeplessness","songwriting","speed","stealing","success","thinking","thoughts","time","witty","wordplay","wordsmith","work","work-ethic","writing"],"id":101666,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}