Write Songs Quotes
196 quotes by 166 authors
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I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
— Noel Gallagher
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music…
— Randy Travis
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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
— Nick Cave
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All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.
— Wes Borland
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what…
— Macklemore
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I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason…
— Guy Clark
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I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage.…
— Mick Taylor
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I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
— Berry Gordy
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When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere…
— Keren Ann
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I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on…
— Kelly Jones
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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to…
— Roger Waters
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as…
— Evan Dando
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
— Rosanne Cash
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Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
— Kristin Hersh
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I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me…
— Desmond Dekker
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If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a…
— Jon Secada
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
— Van Morrison
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Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
— Terri Clark
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When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy…
— Lights
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
— Barry Gibb
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