Songwriting Quotes - Page 30

• Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Needs

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Song, Thinking

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• Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

  Gary Kemp

  Ideas, Acting, Tools

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

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• I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

  Amos Lee

  Real, Knows

  "Singer-songwriter Amos Lee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 1, 2011.

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• Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

  Amos Lee

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• I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

  Laura Marling

  Emotion, Triggers, Situation

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

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• Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

  Andy Partridge

  Two, Get Better, Mixing

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• But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

  Amy Ray

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Kings, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

  Ryan Tedder

  Crafts, Classic, Relevant

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• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Art, Kings

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• A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

  Brian Molko

  Desire

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• I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.

  Ryan Adams

  Trying, Use, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

  Patsy Cline

  Singing, Cameras, Heads Up

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• I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

  Mikky Ekko

  Ideas, People, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Strong, Trying, Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Media, Underdog

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.109, Criss Jami

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• I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Song, Hair

  "You need to shine if you're going to be a star" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Art, Writing

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• My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

  Gwen Stefani

  Music, Song, Diaries

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

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• The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

  Carole King

  People, Vision, Video

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• I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

  Merle Haggard

  Kids, Guitar, Two

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• Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

  Tom T. Hall

  Home, Writing, Class

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• I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.

  Avril Lavigne

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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