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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone…

— Barry Gibb

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out…

— Dinah Jane

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it,…

— Bea Miller

I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you.

— Shibani Dandekar

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

— Avi Kaplan

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

— Smokey Robinson

If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a…

— Donnie Fritts

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want…

— Roger Waters