Authentic Quote by Benji Madden

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…

— Will Oldham

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

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

— Negash Ali

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

— Robert Smith

Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.

— Ciara

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

— Van Morrison

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable,…

— Sam Phillips

I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like…

— Vijay Iyer

You can tell when a song has come from the heart and is genuine, and it moves you more when you can tell the…

— Arlo Parks

The songs always have to come from a real experience.

— Dean Lewis

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

— Craig David