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• What song is it you want to hear?

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Want

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• If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Writing, Men, Swamps

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• A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

  David Lee Roth

  Bangs, Hook, Crash

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• You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.

  Harry Styles

  Inspiration, Writing, Feelings

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• I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.'

  Chris Christie

  Eagles, Awful, Teeth

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• Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

  Alex Turner

  Writing, Waiting, Sometimes

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• In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Mother, Dream, Sleep

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• Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

  Pat Pattison

  Teacher, Trying, Best Teacher

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• My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Ideas, Creating

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• I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Writing, People, Way

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• I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

  Stone Gossard

  Impact, Play, Trying

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• The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

  James Lee

  Oil, Long, Water

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• I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

  Peter Steele

  Believe, Psychosis, Crowds

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• I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

  Hasil Adkins

  People, Wish, Trying

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• One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.

  Chad Channing

  Player, Guitar, Tuning

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• Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

  Cy Coleman

  Artist, Credit, Had Enough

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• I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

  Andrew Dost

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "'We Are Young' and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath’s Darren King and fun.’s Andrew Dost". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

  Nelson Eddy

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

  Martin Fry

  Eras, Used, Resources

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• Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

  Will Hermes

  Teacher, Voice, Soul

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• Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.

  Will Hermes

  Fighting, Issues, Political

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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• I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

  Curtis Jackson

  Pain, Writing, Thinking

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• I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Piano, Long

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• I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  Ian MacKaye

  Real, Mean, Eye

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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