Writing Songs Quotes - Page 5

• I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.

  Max Tundra

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• [My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

  George Michael

  Mother, Song, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.

  Kevin Drew

  Song, Writing, Men

  "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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• My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own.

  Danny Jacob

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: www.axs.com

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• The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Men

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

  Chath Piersath

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, New York, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

  Taylor Momsen

  Song, Children, Writing

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with writing songs and knew I wanted to make music and play it for a lot of people. Back then I said I wanted to heal people with music and bring them together. I called my music, "PAZZ," which means pop and jazz. To this day, all of those things still ring crystal clear.

  Grace Kelly

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

  Owen Pallett

  Song, Writing, Events

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

  Matt Hammitt

  Song, Writing, Trust In God

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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 started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Good Enough

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• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  James Young

  Happiness, Smile, Song

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• I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

  Neil Young

  Song, Writing, Two

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

  Mike Dirnt

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

  Graham Parker

  Song, Writing, Soul

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• I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

  Graham Parker

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, College

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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• Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Play

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• That's what my life is, writing songs.

  John Cale

  Song, Writing, Life Is

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Song, Dad

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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