Mike Gordon Quotes
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
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Me and Eddie really hit it off as songwriters and also as just people. It lasted three years. I don't regret one moment. They were great to me.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
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I'm a songwriter first.
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After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
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The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.
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If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
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Lyricists play with words.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.
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Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
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It's good to listen to electronic music when you're stressed out because you will feel a release afterwards.
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There are always good players out there. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
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A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
