Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

Greg Graffin

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

Chely Wright

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Dave Davies

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Don Dokken

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

John Deacon

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Julian Casablancas

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

Mike Lowry

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

Chad Kroeger

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

Ellie Goulding

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Siobhan Fahey

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

Bjork

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Chris Daughtry

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

Mike Stoller

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

Natasha Bedingfield

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Nikki Sixx

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

Adam Levine

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

Adam Rich

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Troye Sivan

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her, And the verse falls to the snow like dew to the pasture.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing ...

Ice Cube