Writing Songs Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

  Corey Smith

  Song, Writing, People

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• I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Writing, Order

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• I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

  Barry Gibb

  Song, Writing, Records

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• I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Cousin, Writing

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• My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

  Alanis Morissette

  Soccer, Song, Brother

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• When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Writing, Intellectual

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• I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

  Annie Lennox

  Song, Heart, Writing

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• Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

  Jonny Lang

  Song, Writing, Enjoy

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• I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Life Changing, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I started writing songs at age 15.

  Vince Clarke

  Song, Writing, Age

  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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• 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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• I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Nice, Writing

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• The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not everyone shares that same opinion, but when I'm writing songs or working on lyrics or coming up with an idea, I think about videos as I'm in the studio. If I had all the money in the world, I would have the most amazing videos ever, you know? You're saying grandiose, and big; if the song warrants it, I try to push the visuals as far as I can.

  Tamaryn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love writing songs.

  Sade Adu

  Song, Writing

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

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

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• I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Song, Writing, World

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• Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

  Anita Diament

  Song, Writing, Light

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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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• 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 can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Moving, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)

  Robin Guthrie

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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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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