Songwriting Quotes - Page 26

• For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

  David Grubbs

  Yield, Different, Records

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

  Beth Orton

  Thinking, Ideas, Negative

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

  Carrie Underwood

  Country, Talent, Music Is

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

  Greg Lake

  Unique, Unique Experiences, Formulas

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• I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Caves, Lines

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

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• Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

  Emeli Sande

  Piano, Soul, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

  Win Butler

  Song, Inspiration, Half

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Player

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Clever, Numbers

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• I am really heavy into songwriting.

  Teyana

  Heavy

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• I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

  Black Francis

  People, Style, Musician

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.

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• Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

  Jay Heinrichs

  Country, Writing, Men

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• Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Children, Powerful, Home

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• I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

  Ester Dean

  Done, Know How, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

  Adam Kluger

  College, Program, Music Business

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• If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally go and see Carol Lipnik at Pangea. If you love music and appreciate great songwriting and singing, if you came to NYC to experience magical happenings in tiny rooms that could never happen anyplace else in the world, if you dreamed of intimate nights surrounded by smart, talented, interesting people, this is what you're here for.
  Now DON'T MISS IT!!!!

  Justin Vivian Bond

  Smart, Night, Nyc

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• The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

  M. Ward

  Song, Opportunity, Light

  Interview with Bob Boilen, www.npr.org. November 17, 2006.

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• (Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

  Willie Nelson

  Writing, Eight, Years

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

  John Darnielle

  Nursing, Expression, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.

  John Congleton

  Artist, Thinking, Feelings

  "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

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• It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

  Gene Simmons

  Clever, Block, Kids

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• I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Kings, Writing

  Interview with Brian Koppelman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

  Teddy Thompson

  Country, Heart, Influence

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• I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

  Ringo Starr

  Thinking

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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