"Sometimes I start with a great title..." - Quote by Dolly Parton
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.
More by Dolly Parton
“I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.”
“We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.”
“I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.”
More on Creativity
“The further you go in writing the more alone you are.”
“There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.”
“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”
More on Songwriting
“I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.”
“I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.”
“I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.”