Ben Gibbard Quotes About Songwriting

Quotes about: Songwriting

• For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.

  Ben Gibbard

  Wise, Song, Writing

• I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Want

• More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

• The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Clever, Numbers

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