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• A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Songwriting, Chorus

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• A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Songwriting, Songwriters

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• I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

  Lamont Dozier

  Moving, Thinking, Piano

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.

  David Crosby

  Song, Years, Whales

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• Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

  George Gershwin

  Song, Inspiration, Two

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• I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

  James Taylor

  Pretending, Songwriting, Singer-songwriters

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

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• I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Song, Writing, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

  Eric Church

  Song, Writing, Records

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• If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

  Glenn Frey

  Song, Writing, Feedback

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Play

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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• Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

  Brent Smith

  Song, Writing, Musician

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• [My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

  George Michael

  Mother, Song, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started writing songs at age 15.

  Vince Clarke

  Song, Writing, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Cousin, Writing

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• I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

  Barry Gibb

  Song, Writing, Records

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• I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.

  Gary Lightbody

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

  Guy Clark

  Motivational, Country, Song

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

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

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• I love writing songs.

  Sade Adu

  Song, Writing

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• I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Nice, Writing

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• Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Sex, Writing

  "Oasis from the archives: Noel in 1994". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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