Chips Quote by Brett Dennen

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward…

— Doug Martsch

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing.…

— Oh Land

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and…

— Mark Kozelek

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one…

— Jonathan Jackson

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life. When you…

— Michael Benjamin Lerner

Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit down with…

— Jeff Mangum

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they…

— Mike Gordon

When artists try to do a whole album by themselves, the songs start to sound similar.

— Sisqo

Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things…

— Erik Rutan

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what…

— Richard Marx

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos