Song Quotes

• Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the hip-hop scene opens up to all the great music that came out of dance, it will continue to spread to the more mainstream audience.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Time
  • Song

• Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

  

  Annette O'Toole
  • Home
  • Couple
  • Wine

• When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Movie
  • Nature
  • Band

• New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Why

• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Demonstration
  • Pub
  • Obligalion

• Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Play

• I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.

  

  Alice Merton
  • Song
  • Feel
  • Write

• It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Song
  • Single

• I kick butt on karaoke with any Journey song!

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Song
  • Journey

• Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

  

  Will Durant
  • Grow
  • My Heart
  • Fathom

• I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  

  Amanda McBroom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Singing

• I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I think being on 'Glee' is such a great experience, but I think the best part was when I did 'All By Myself', because I love that song.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Song

• I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Song
  • Single

• I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Obsessed

• I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Guy
  • Song

• I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can do it all on the road and that has been a huge difference that has happened in 2016. It is the only way for me to really balance. There is a lot of overhead, but it's a big investment towards being a dad and a husband, which is ultimately my number one goal.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Dad

• I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Song

• The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
  • Truth
  • Proud

• It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Song

• As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Music
  • Song

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