Songwriting Quotes
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I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
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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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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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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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What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
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I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.
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I have the same way of approaching songwriting and singing. It's always been about the pure love of music. I've always had an interest in production and arranging.
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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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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.
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Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
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Songwriting is such a sensitive energy. It's just a vibration of frequencies.
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Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
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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 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 blame it never taking a break on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.
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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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I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
