Songwriters Quotes - Page 9

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Strong, Writing

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• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, People

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• Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

  Nanci Griffith

  Song, Mean, Hands

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• I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.

  William Beckett

  Writing, Ideas, Challenges

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• If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends. This is mainly because many labels are afraid to take big risks on something that sounds too different than the status quo.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Artist, Risk

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.

  Wendy Starland

  Artist, Needs, Trends

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

  Jamie Cullum

  Voice, Parks, Lizzy

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• Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

  Ronee Blakley

  Real, Acting, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

  Dean Wareham

  Technology, Scary, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Song, Jobs, Thinking

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• I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

  Craig Finn

  Book, Reading, Fans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

  Nikki Jean

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Self, Advice, Understanding

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

  DJ Spooky

  Needs, Looks, Band

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• All the songwriters that I worked with said they'd like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.

  Seungri

  Inspiration, Makers, Made

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Blessed, Careers

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Baby, Hate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Labels, Band, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

  Jenny O.

  Art, Rock And Roll, Light

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

  Cass McCombs

  People, Personality, Ego

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

  Alan Light

  Writing, Rapper, Fake

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.

  James Iha

  Writing, Rocks, Band

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.

  Bryce Wilson

  Mother, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.thefader.com

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