Beach Quote by Charlotte Caffey

I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on song craft…

— Stella Soleil

My mom had a tape of Patsy Cline's greatest hits, and whenever we were in the car, she would put it on, and it…

— Diana DeGarmo

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm…

— Peter Blegvad

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to…

— Mary Gauthier

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after,…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

We have this song called 'Radio,' and I wrote that song when we needed one more song for a record. So I went back…

— Matt Skiba

I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more to us…

— Charlotte Caffey

I made records purely for fun - songs that made you feel good. I left the message songs to people like John Lennon.

— Dave Clark

I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had…

— Benji Madden

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I…

— Thurston Moore

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song…

— Kreesha Turner