Best Writing Songs Sayings
164 Writing Songs quotes by 139 unique authors
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Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
— Gwen Stefani
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I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.
— Harry Styles
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I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
— Delta Goodrem
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My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
— Jerry Harrison
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I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a…
— Steve Earle
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Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and…
— Tommy Rettig
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation…
— Jonny Greenwood
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I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet…
— Alicia Witt
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Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And…
— Paula Abdul
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves…
— Bryan Ferry
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When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little…
— Paul Weller
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning…
— Jeff Tweedy
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Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
— Robert Wyatt
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My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since…
— Lisa Loeb
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I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
— Pixie Lott
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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
— Nate Ruess
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Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
— Marian McPartland
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I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
— Joanna Newsom
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The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven…
— Frank Ocean
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Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them…
— Will Oldham
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
— Elliott Smith
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Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white…
— Robin Thicke
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Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
— Ryan Tedder
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Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but…
— Tila Tequila
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