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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It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.
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The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket.
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When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.
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A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
