Songwriting Quotes - Page 12

• I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

  Grimes

  Thinking, Important, Texture

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Helping, Help Me, Release

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• I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Real, Thinking, Messages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.

  Rayvon Owen

  Thinking, Moments, Capture

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I think my songwriting has developed over the years. As I get older, I have become less afraid to share real experiences.

  Rayvon Owen

  Real, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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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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• You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. ... Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ... The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ... After you get what you want you don't want it. ... Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ... The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

  Mirah

  People, Resistance, Restriction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Writing, Style

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, March 1, 2015.

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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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• Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

  Matt Squire

  Song, Responsibility, Numbers

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• I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Writing, Color

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• Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Song, Falling In Love, Artist

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• Songwriting is my true passion and that's what the BMI awards are all about.

  Kevin Rudolf

  Passion, Awards, True Passion

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.

  Nick Lowe

  People, Peculiar, Mystery

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

  Ann Reed

  Song, Writing, Interesting

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• I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not relate at all. I've always hated structure of all kinds, it just doesn't work for me. I can never fit into the schedules of other people. It's like putting a schedule on your song, and it doesn't allow you to be moved by your own music.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Dad, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.

  Ann Reed

  Song, Writing, Feelings

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• I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

  David Massengill

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

  David Massengill

  Writing, Everyday, Generations

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• I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Want

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• Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

  Flume

  Doe, Chords, Melody

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.

  Ella Henderson

  Teaching, Writing, School

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• I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.

  Travis Morrison

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Bridges

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