Lucinda Williams Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

  Song, Voice, Perfect

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

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Real, Genuine

• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Work, Mean

• I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Mean, Loss

  "Lucinda Williams enjoying success from a lotus position" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. June 13, 2001.

• 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

  Broken Heart, Song, Writing

• Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Change, Song, Thinking

• 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

  Song, Ideas, Sound

• 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

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

  Song, Strong, Nice

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

• 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

  Song, Art, Self

• 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

  Girl, Song, Believe

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

• I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

  Lucinda Williams

  Breakup, Song, Inspiration

• There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over and over again, or heard about. People would ask me about it, but they kind of knew the answer. It would be this ongoing question: "Your fans are wondering, now that you're married, are you still going to be able to write songs?" I'm serious! I would get asked that!

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: music.avclub.com

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

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Sweet, World

• I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Together

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2011.

• I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Good Enough

• Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Essence, Car

• It's easier to write songs when you're single.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Easier

  "Lucinda Williams: What I've Learned" by Brendan Vaughan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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