Keepers Quote by Reba McEntire

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

— Rick Rubin

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

— Robbie Robertson

I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody, to music,…

— William Beckett

I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling.…

— The-Dream

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them…

— Stephin Merritt

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

— Shawn Mendes

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song…

— Sufjan Stevens

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that are just…

— Ella Henderson

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

— Darren Hayes

Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something that gets…

— Jonas Blue

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

— MO

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate…

— Greta Salpeter