Songwriting Quotes
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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.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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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.
Brett Dennen
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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.
Paul Mazzolini
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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.
Chris Wyse
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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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.
Billy Joel
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Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
George Frideric Handel
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Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.
Sigrid
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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.
Thurston Moore
Sonic Youth
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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.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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Songwriting is such a sensitive energy. It's just a vibration of frequencies.
Victoria Monet
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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.
Bernard Fanning
