Unknown Sources Quotes

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.