Writing Songs Quotes - Page 4

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

  Jonny Lang

  Song, Writing, Enjoy

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• I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Records

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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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• 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 went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."

  St. Lucia

  Song, Growing Up, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Song, Writing, Order

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I love writing songs where the name is the title.

  Katy B

  Song, Writing, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Writing, Albums

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.

  Bonnie McKee

  Song, Writing, Kids

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing 'Roar,' and More". Interview with Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Keys

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• I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."

  Beth Ditto

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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