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Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to… — Andy Wilkinson
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing… — Dan Bern
If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it… — Mose Allison
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could… — Bob Dylan
I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what… — Paul Simon
I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a… — Paul Simon
For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song… — Unknown Author
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have… — Jimmy Webb
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're… — Anne McCaffrey
I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning… — Ani DiFranco
There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb,… — Fred Eaglesmith
I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It… — Fred Eaglesmith
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just… — Etgar Keret
Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be… — Charles R. Swindoll
Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And… — Jake Gyllenhaal
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where… — Wilhelm II
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across… — Jimmy Webb
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into… — David Bowie
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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