Songwriting Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Duets, Sitting

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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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• 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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• I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

  Dolly Parton

  Struggle, Writing, People

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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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• It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.

  Steven Morrissey

  Way, Interest

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• Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

  Glen Hansard

  Singing, Busking, Wells

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

  Lauryn Hill

  Creativity, Emotional, Ideas

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• Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Success, Work, Important

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• You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

  Betty Carter

  Want, Macgyver, Knows

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• If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

  Aretha Franklin

  Song, Soul, Aliens

  FaceBook post by Aretha Franklin from Aug 30, 2011

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• Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Confused, Writing, Simple

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

  Jo Dee Messina

  Helping, Help Me, Release

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• I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.

  Jens Lekman

  Fun, Long, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• 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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• Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.

  Luke Temple

  Would Be, Attributes, Sole

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.

  Antoniette Costa

  Song, Emotion, Cathartic

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.

  Bat for Lashes

  Writing, Thinking, Progression

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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