Different Quote by Mary J. Blige

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

You have to take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix…

— Al B. Sure

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

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky…

— Cher Lloyd

It's not always possible to play a song exactly as it is on the album. That's also something that I really don't want to…

— Trentemøller

When you're in the studio, you have to get the bare-bones, crystallized version of the song you've written. That's the blueprint for everything else.…

— John Popper

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

— Sebastian Bach

You have to create music that people will buy into and show who you are as an artist.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

— Natasha Bedingfield

I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have a real…

— Marina and the Diamonds

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

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

— Van Morrison