Beast Quote by Chuck Ragan

I find that with each new record I'm learning more and dipping my toes into new things.

— Declan McKenna

When someone covers a song and tries to copy the inflections, or sing the exact same way, you're not learning anything new about the…

— Noah Kahan

You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw…

— Eminem

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.

— Jim Sarbh

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's…

— Frankie Cosmos

It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point…

— Chuck Ragan

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

— Lou Barlow

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you…

— Jeff Tweedy

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one…

— Eminem

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck