Songwriting Quotes
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.
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When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
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I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.
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For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.
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Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
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It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.
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Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.
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Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.
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I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have to use one or the other. I love digital because it's really great for songwriting because you can just cut and move choruses around and pull chunks of songs. It's really easy to hear quickly "Oh, maybe the arrangement should be like this."
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Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.
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I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
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I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
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Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.
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Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
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I try to keep my eyes open as much as I can, like there are so many things, everyday is so different from each others and so the еще open Ты can be the еще inspiration Ты can get for song-writing.
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I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'
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I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
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I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.
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I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.
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Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.
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It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.
