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Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it's a hit single, so…

— Omarion

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's…

— R. Kelly

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out…

— David Longstreth

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 song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

— Rico Love

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

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's…

— Glen Hansard

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

My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the…

— M. Ward

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar