Quotes of: Song-writing Keyword

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becomin...

James Iha

I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything in your life is great, bad weather can set the mood. You can write songs in New York because it's not always...

Tom Odell

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my ...

Adele

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

Martin Gore

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

Jason Isbell

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

Grandmaster Flash

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Justin Townes Earle

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Vance Joy

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Jakob Dylan

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Miley Cyrus

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

Tim Finn

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

James Maslow

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

Ray LaMontagne

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

Brian Wilson

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

Bruce Dickinson

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Shawn Colvin

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

Bruce Springsteen

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than wr...

Lisa Loeb

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Maurice Gibb

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

Ricky Martin

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

Katy Perry