Song Quotes

• Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • World
  • Better
  • Sound

• I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Teacher

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Lyrics
  • Personal

• A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Song
  • Comforting

• Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting

• If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Song
  • Rules
  • Introduction

• I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Balance

• When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Mom
  • Car
  • Listening

• When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • American
  • Jesus

• The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Song

• As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Melodrama

• My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Cousin

• Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Live
  • Opportunity
  • Thing

• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Words
  • Singing

• Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Imagination
  • Challenge
  • Popular

• I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Broken

• To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Great
  • Song
  • Audiences

• When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Music
  • Writing
  • She

• Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Write
  • Record

• In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Long
  • Practice

• I'm a sucker for a sad song.

  

  Chris Young
  • Song
  • Sad

• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Kind

• There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Job
  • Lyrics

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