Communication Quote by Ryan Adams

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

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

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

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived,…

— Jarryd James

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing…

— PJ Harvey

Music is nostalgia. We often connect to a song, to its lyrics, its tunes so much that it feels like we have known those…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want…

— Michael Nesmith

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires…

— Bono

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it…

— Amy Grant

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

— Tom Waits