Dissatisfaction Quote by Carrie Brownstein

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

— Andrew Bird

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

— LP

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen…

— Flume

I really try to be aware of the purpose of each song. There are songs on my record that I want people to have…

— Nick Jonas

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

— Arlo Guthrie

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our…

— Dan Smith

There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you…

— Andrew Bird

Sometimes I just get into the zone of the song, but in the outset I feel like I love to cater to people -…

— Thomston

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of…

— Washed Out

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

— Corey Smith

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

— Jon Crosby

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my…

— John Lennon