Industry Quote by Brian Harvey

We became the songs we wrote.

— Barry Mann

I wanted to write a song that was outright against war, in any form.

— Declan McKenna

I was definitely super rebellious, and my music is that.

— Lil Tracy

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

— Antoine Arnault

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry,…

— Dennis Edwards

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because…

— Kano

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

— Mike Lowry

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why…

— John Lennon

In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if…

— William Christopher Handy

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

— Troye Sivan