Cynthia Weil Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.”

“We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.”

“On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.”

“She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.”

“That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.”

“The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.”