Writing Songs Quotes - Page 2

• A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Songwriting, Chorus

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• I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

  Lamont Dozier

  Moving, Thinking, Piano

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Songwriting, Songwriters

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• I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

  James Taylor

  Pretending, Songwriting, Singer-songwriters

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

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• My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.

  David Crosby

  Song, Years, Whales

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• Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

  George Gershwin

  Song, Inspiration, Two

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• I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Song, Writing, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

  Glenn Frey

  Song, Writing, Feedback

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

  Eric Church

  Song, Writing, Records

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• To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Play

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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• Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

  Brent Smith

  Song, Writing, Musician

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• My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

  David Pajo

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Writing, Dies

  "CNN People In The News", www.cnn.com. August 23, 2003.

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Sex, Writing

  "Oasis from the archives: Noel in 1994". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Writing, Long

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• There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

  Guy Clark

  Motivational, Country, Song

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• In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

  Kimbra

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Passion, Writing

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

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• I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.

  Gary Lightbody

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

  Phillip Phillips

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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