Attractive Quote by Buffy Sainte-Marie

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

— Conor Oberst

I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in…

— Bob Dylan

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

— Rod Stewart

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

— Craig Finn

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really…

— Ryan Adams

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny…

— Chris Cornell

I feel if you make the song good enough, structurally and sonically, then you can literally do whatever you want with the lyrics.

— CMAT

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

— Les Baxter

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

— Nick Lowe

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

— Tom Jones

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

— Emmylou Harris

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

— Frank Iero