Writing Songs Quotes - Page 9

• 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 like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

  Colin Hay

  Song, Writing, Feel Good

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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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• And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.

  Priscilla Ahn

  Song, Writing, Trying

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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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• 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 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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• Originally I was not writing songs for myself

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Writing

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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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