41 Quotes by Cynthia Weil

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

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.

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

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.

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.

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.

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

I wanted to write for Broadway.