Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, i...

Joni Mitchell

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Alicia Keys

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

Cass McCombs

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Malcolm Wilson

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

Scott Weiland

If I write the song, I get to name it.

Britt Daniel

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Joe Elliott

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

Lou Gramm

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

Vance Joy

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Gene Clark

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Dolly Parton

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you wri...

Kiesza

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

King Tuff

I write my songs because I've lived them.

Katy Perry

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

Oscar Isaac

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 ca...

Ani DiFranco

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can...

Guy Clark

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Tom Glazer

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Tom Lehrer

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being ...

El DeBarge