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• You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

  Patsy Cline

  Singing, Cameras, Heads Up

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• The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Heart, Blind

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• I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

  Mikky Ekko

  Ideas, People, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like to dwell on the past.

  Tina Turner

  Past, House, Rocking Chairs

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• I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Fans

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• The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

  Dave Mustaine

  Guitar, Influence, Wave

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• Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

  Jason Mraz

  Mean, Thinking, Profound

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide: An Interview". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Writing, Careers

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• The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Unique, Zombie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Art, Writing

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, People

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• I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Song, Hair

  "You need to shine if you're going to be a star" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Natural Talent, Born, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Groups, More Time

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• Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

  Nick Cave

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• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Empathy, Feels, Experiments

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• Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn't how I do things.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, People, Admire

  "Zooey Deschanel switches from acting to singing". www.timesfreepress.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Media, Underdog

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.109, Criss Jami

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• When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

  Noel Gallagher

  Style, Suffering, Musician

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• There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb, and they're different than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. All those weird voices come out of Canada. That's because it's so cold here we can hardly open our mouth. We get much less light in Canada. No wonder the writing's dark.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Writing, School, Dark

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• You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Writing, People, Needs

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• Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work.

  Kevin Alexander

  Writing, Style, Important

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• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Play, Two, Mistress

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• The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

  Eric Hoffer

  Philosophy, Writing, Play

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• Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

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