Songwriters Quotes - Page 3

• Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

  Tracy Chapman

  Creating, Writing Songs, Mysterious

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

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• Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

  Pete Seeger

  Writing, Ideas, Lucky

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• A lot of people, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and a lot of people have written for other people, and of course Bruno Mars. So I think it's a great way to break into the industry and show people what you can do and show them your talent and people tend to listen a little differently to your own music as an artist, when you've proven yourself as a good songwriter for other artists.

  Bonnie McKee

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

  Don Henley

  Wind, Singers, Sometimes

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

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• The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

  Bob Weir

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

  Christina Aguilera

  World

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• Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

  Stephen Foster

  Home, Names, Long

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• Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Ideas, Vision

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• The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

  Tori Amos

  Music, Important, Sometimes

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• I feel like this song [Yello, "Oh Yeah"] was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio. There was probably no thought behind it; they were just playing with some samples and threw it together. I feel like there's no dream behind the song. Usually there's a dream or some kind of passion attached to a song. This song feels very empty. It made a lot of money for the songwriters but at the expense of culture.

  Margaret Cho

  Dream, Song, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.

  Rodney Crowell

  Loss, Simplicity, Grace

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• None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter

  Noel Gallagher

  College, Doe, Different

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• I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song."

  Mirah

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

  Mirah

  Hard Times, Way, Horns

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs sing themselves to you tonally and also lyrically. And it's not necessarily your own visual memories that are writing the song. It's like there are words that you can catch out there and you have to be able to see and hear them.

  Mirah

  Song, Jobs, Memories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing

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• Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Writing, Law

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.

  Craig Finn

  Girl, Song, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

  Andrew Bird

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Careers, Support

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• You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

  Elvis Costello

  Summer, New York, Opportunity

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

  Noel Gallagher

  Oasis, Musician, Talented Musicians

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

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• It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me, I don't worry about it, but I know there might come a day when I can't write anymore, or don't have good song ideas or the fire to do it anymore.

  Rodney Clawson

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

  Robbie Williams

  Summer, Names, Remember Something

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• I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.

  Mirah

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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