Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’...

Andre Dubus

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to h...

Andrew James Pritchard

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in t...

William T. Vollmann

I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to write, if I catch myself trying to write, I'll fall right on my face. I'll see it. If I see in the prose that I'm - 'Boy, look at me writing,' I rewri...

Elmore Leonard

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Dr. Dre

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Joe Perry

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Kate Smith

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Michael Bolton

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

Andrea Bocelli

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Billy Sunday

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

But the book! The siren song of the book!

Witnessing

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Hilaire Belloc

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

Lucinda Williams

The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.

Skylar Grey

My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart.

Nicole Scherzinger

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Paul Anka

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Patti Smith

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

Ray LaMontagne

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Shaan