Lucinda Williams Song Quotes & Sayings

Could anyone fully understand the wonders of how a baby develops in the womb of a woman? This is the mystery about birth. Birth is by divine power of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point. — Lucinda Williams

Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do. — Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken. — Lucinda Williams

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine. — Lucinda Williams

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. — Lucinda Williams

To some people, the miraculous appears to be everyday. To others, every day is a miracle. Which person are you? — Rainer Rey

Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad. — Lucinda Williams

Me, I couldn't give two halves of a quarter fuck when I was alive. I tried, I swear. It just wasn't going to happen. In fact, the only thing I truly cared about was ensuring that I could comfortably not care without repercussion, and I was damn good at it. — C.L. Allen

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. — Lucinda Williams

Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism. - — Ariel Levy

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you. — Andy Rooney

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few. — Lucinda Williams

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something. — Lucinda Williams

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there. — Lucinda Williams

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores. — Betty Friedan

I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it. — Matthew Zapruder

No man is perfect but God is. What do you think? — Koyel Mitra

It's easier to write songs when you're single. — Lucinda Williams