Writing Songs Quotes - Page 7

• I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

  Joel Plaskett

  Song, Memories, Mean

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

  Jason Reeves

  Song, Writing, Goal

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• Originally I was not writing songs for myself

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Writing

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• I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

  Brian Wilson

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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

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• Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

  John Mayer

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

  Rob Thomas

  Patience, Song, Writing

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• Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like Miley says, going back to her home, going back to her roots. Getting back to Tennessee was art imitating life imitating art.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Art, Home

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.

  Priscilla Ahn

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

  Colin Hay

  Song, Writing, Feel Good

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• My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

  Richard Hawley

  Song, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Distance, Writing

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• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Song, Writing, Dark

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• I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'

  Adele

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

  Adele

  Song, Writing, Mean

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

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of you. But, you know, I started writing songs by myself. I didn't really have a co-writer, besides my dad. When I see a record and it has a song on it that someone wrote [alone], I just really believe in them as a writer. I feel like it's a window into them, more than it is if you write a song with someone else.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Dad, Believe

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ....And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. ... Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. When you write a song, a song has longevity. ... So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it-only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. Songwriting is my gift from God.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Writing, People

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• I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.

  Kid Rock

  Song, Kings, Rap

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• I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

  Scott Ian

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Writing, Years

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• When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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