Songwriting Quotes - Page 32

• I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

  David Byrne

  Born, Find Me, Asks

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• As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

  Tom Cochrane

  Jobs, People, Done

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• A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

  Mike Gordon

  Singer-songwriters, Collaborators, Has Beens

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

  Alberta Hunter

  Faith In God, Confidence In Yourself

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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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• Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings the songs, and it's the songs that heal the hurt. Jonathan's songs bring us there, and back. Check this record out, it's a good 'un.

  Mary Gauthier

  Beautiful, Song, Hurt

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• I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

  Neko Case

  Thinking, Littles, Might

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• Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Thinking, Smoking

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• Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

  Jackson Browne

  Music, Song, Writing

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Song, Kind, Outlets

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• I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

  Julian Casablancas

  Slow Motion, Enjoy, Improvising

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• If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

  Laura Marling

  Outlets, Mediums, Bits

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• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  Barry Mann

  Successful, Ability, Innate

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Past, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.

  Chris Wyse

  Song, Inspiration, Missing

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• I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.

  Lights

  Song, Writing, Artist

  Source: coogradio.com

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• The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.

  Steve Weinstein

  Philosophy, Teaching, Our World

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• I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers.

  Creed Bratton

  Morning, Writing, Night

  Source: www.talive.com

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• I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

  Billy Joel

  Song, Stars, Writing

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

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