You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
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ALBERT FINNEY Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav... AMY ADAMS As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you'... JAKE OWEN I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has t... CAIO FONSECA If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, t... EDDIE VEDDER Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should be... GEORGE LOIS Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... TEDDY THOMPSON As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they ... BRAD PAISLEY There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of drama... NORAH JONES Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. DANNY KAYE The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and som... DWEEZIL ZAPPA The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you ... DAVEED DIGGS Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy... BENNY BLANCO My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've eve... ALAN ARKIN As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people'... ED SHEERAN Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And ... JONI EARECKSON TADA But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou... BILLY BRAGG I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That... BEN HARPER What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get tha... SKEET ULRICH It's a costume that provides a natural look so we can spring from one character to the next. We don'... SHENOAH ALLEN For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ... MARK KNOPFLER It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th... CYNTHIA KENYON We have a wonderful blank canvas on which to draw a plan. NEIL FRAZEE Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing.... CHEVY CHASE I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody'... JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt. BILLY WEST When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to gra... MADI DIAZ Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea... TOM CLANCY It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That'... LAURENT BRANCOWITZ I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can h... ELISABETH SHUE I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and ... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tel... BILL CONDON Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology... FLUME That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from ou... JAMES WAN A Harley is a blank canvas. We take it to a whole new extreme. JASON MARTIN I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr... BRUCE COCKBURN Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, runnin... EZRA MILLER When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences,... GERALD CLAYTON That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't li... ZADIE SMITH There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the c... RANDY HOUSER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas. BIBHU MOHAPATRA I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An... OPRAH WINFREY If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion... JASON ISBELL There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a... MICHELLE GOMEZ Life began as a blank canvas. Unless we splash some color on it, it will remain rather dull. We must... SHELLY KAY WALDE Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's no... NICK VUJICIC It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebo... SHERILYN FENN You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet w... PICO IYER I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of l... TOM WAITS If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, a... TAVI GEVINSON Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel... JOSE JAMES A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You ca... JAKE ROBERTS You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... HARRY STYLES I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating somethin... AMY LEE Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's somethi... DAVE GAHAN You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I... DIANA KRALL I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti... VANESSA BROWN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a m... JON HUNTSMAN, SR. I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on st... EVE BEST What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life. DAVID ARCHULETA Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with noth... HENRY PETROSKI I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or ... OWAIN YEOMAN That's the beauty about beauty; it's not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and ... MICHELLE PHAN 'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specif... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! ... GARRET DILLAHUNT I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I’m a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the cha... E.K. BLAIR The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you ... TREY SONGZ I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was ju... ERIN MORGENSTERN Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's j... ELLEN DEGENERES I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as... RYAN GOSLING There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody&... CARRIE UNDERWOOD If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for ... PATRICK WILSON I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'... TAJ MAHAL It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... ALAN ALDA As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody... DANIEL CRAIG It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if yo... BEBE REXHA Imagine your life is a big canvas. Picture it in your mind and think about the beginnning of your pa... STEPHEN BIRO I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as... SHAWN MENDES Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a s... DOLLY PARTON The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful ... THEODORE DALRYMPLE A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. STEPHANIE PERKINS It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. MAURICE GIBB
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