Writing Songs Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

  Matt Stone

  Song, Writing, Forever

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

  Richard Hawley

  Song, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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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• I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crush, Mom, Song

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• When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

  Benjamin Booker

  Song, Writing, Band

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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. The first song I wrote was called "Kitten." It was about a boy named Liam, who I was just crazy about.

  Bonnie McKee

  Girl, Song, Crazy

  "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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• I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Writing, Feelings

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• When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

  Prince

  Song, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

  Beth Moore

  Song, Writing, Important

  Source: canadianbeats.ca

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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've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

  Joel Plaskett

  Song, Memories, Mean

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

  Jason Reeves

  Song, Writing, Goal

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• I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

  Brian Wilson

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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

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• Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

  John Mayer

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

  Rob Thomas

  Patience, Song, Writing

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• Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like Miley says, going back to her home, going back to her roots. Getting back to Tennessee was art imitating life imitating art.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Art, Home

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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