Writing Songs Quotes - Page 6

• I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

  Johnny Marr

  Song, Writing, People

  "Johnny Marr has no negative thoughts about The Smiths, seriously". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2012.

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• There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Twenty years after In Utero, Nirvana's importance hasn't diminished" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

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• I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

  Joshua Radin

  Song, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Needs

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2008.

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• We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen Trouss, pitchfork.com. October 29, 2007.

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• I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Kings, Writing

  Interview with Brian Koppelman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Writing

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.

  Neko Case

  Country, Song, Writing

  "MusicfestNW 2013: When Neko Met K.D". Interview with Robert Ham, www.wweek.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Crush, Song, Strong

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• I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.

  Matt Smith

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: sunsetintherearview.com

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• I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

  R. Kelly

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

  Nikka Costa

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Blessed, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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

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• When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

  Christian Kane

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

  Darren Criss

  Song, Writing, People

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• Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Eye

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• One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do, which is writing songs for the church and helping the church connect with God. While the global ministry grows and the influence has been blessed in an amazing way, we are really conscious about staying focused on the families that come into our church every weekend and making sure that we're meeting their needs for whatever season they're in.

  Reuben Morgan

  Song, Blessed, Writing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Attitude, Writing

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• When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

  Daniel Johnston

  Song, Writing, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Writing, Pieces

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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