Macklemore Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Expectations

  Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. December 10, 2011.

• I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

  Macklemore

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

  Macklemore

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  Macklemore

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Careers

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

• As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

• I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Months

• I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

  Macklemore

  Writing, Guitar, Play

  Song: The Town, Album: The Unplanned Mixtape, 2009

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