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Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

— Sammy Cahn

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.

— Marie Brennan

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

— Slash

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

— Alanis Morissette

I really didn't think about song writing.

— Adam Rich

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

— Eddie Van Halen

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

— Lee Brice

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

— Tracy Letts

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

— Moon Unit Zappa

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

— Eminem