Fun Quote by Iron & Wine

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny…

— Chris Cornell

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes…

— David Berman

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that…

— James Mercer

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward…

— Doug Martsch

People ask me this a lot, what a song's about… I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get…

— Tom Verlaine

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

When I write a song, that process is sort of entwined with a lyric or a chord progression that suits the vibe, and that'll…

— Michelle Zauner

It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to…

— Lauren Alaina

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a…

— Miguel

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

— Robin Pecknold