A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
A rhyme doesn't make a song.
Love is the reason for it all.
In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?