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BEN CLARK![]()
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a cover...
ROBERT CRAY We spend so much time and effort trying to write the best songs that we can write and pick the best ...
GARY LEVOX![]()
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
JOHN MELLENCAMP I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
SIOBHAN FAHEY Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH![]()
I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
BEYONCE KNOWLES![]()
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
KATY PERRY I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i...
VINCE NEIL Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.
DON DOKKEN![]()
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO![]()
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicio...
MANUEL PUIG It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of yo...
JOSH DUN I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try ...
ADAM SCHLESINGER Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural ...
ROGER WATERS I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriou...
JASON ISBELL No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock bal...
BON SCOTT I think just working as hard as we possibly can, without dying! And always, always trying to write t...
BILLY LUNN My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS![]()
Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves
BILL ANDERSON![]()
If you're playing on a soft-sounding instrument like a Rhodes, you're not going to write honky-tonk ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I write the best book that I can write each time.
KAREN ROBARDS![]()
I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th...
MARILYN MANSON The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be inc...
PAUL WESTERBERG We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those pe...
ANDY BIERSACK![]()
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa...
J. D. SOUTHER![]()
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG![]()
I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e...
AIMEE MANN![]()
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
KELSEA BALLERINI![]()
I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE![]()
I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead ...
STURGILL SIMPSON![]()
I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of di...
CARA DELEVINGNE![]()
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the ...
PETE TOWNSHEND To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about thi...
CHERRELLE We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, w...
BEN WINDSOR I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. An...
GUY CLARK![]()
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood...
LOU REED To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin...
BARRY MANILOW![]()
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER![]()
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of ...
HUGO CHAVEZ If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with ...
AYUMI HAMASAKI![]()
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do i...
ALDOUS HUXLEY![]()
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what...
ADELE As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying t...
DAVID NAIL We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut.
RICHARD ARCHER![]()
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON![]()
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I want to write a best-selling book.
DIANE ABBOTT We're kind of staggering the touring a bit at this point just to write more songs for our next recor...
STEVE BAYS All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
BON SCOTT It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ...
EMILY ROBISON![]()
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM![]()
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
DAVID BOWIE I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is i...
AARON MARCUSSON![]()
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song...
COREY TAYLOR![]()
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son...
GEORGE HARRISON![]()
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
BEBE REXHA![]()
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
ALAN BENNETT The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen.
CINDY WALKER I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.
BEN MEZRICH![]()
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
CASS MCCOMBS Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge ...
SARAH KEDDAR I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr...
BRUCE COCKBURN![]()
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. SALINGER Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Somet...
MICHAEL CADNUM![]()
I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs...
GARY ALLAN![]()
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD![]()
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise -- just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There...
OTIS BLACKWELL Ben Harper came to us with some gospel songs in mind, and that worked. I thought that was a good ide...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than ...
MAREN MORRIS![]()
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON![]()
I've always idolized people who can write songs.
RUPAUL I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
BILL WITHERS![]()
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want somethin...
ROBERT GOULD SHAW![]()
You can best write about your own experiences.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We love rock 'n' roll. Being able to do what we do every night ? seeing the country and, hopefully, ...
AUGIE VISOCCHI I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING![]()
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th...
T-PAIN There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. ...
ELMER BERNSTEIN I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can pl...
GEORGE THOROGOOD You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.
SABRINA CARPENTER![]()
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
ELTON JOHN To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadi...
YOUNG JEEZY I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o...
IRIS DEMENT Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co...
JAKE OWEN![]()
I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's wor...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It would suck for me to just be in the studio. We definitely want to tour, but two of us are married...
ROMULO COSTA I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock '...
JOHN CALE![]()
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&...
LIAM GALLAGHER We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape...
BRAD CALLOW![]()
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for...
PAUL THEROUX I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
BRIAN A. MCBRIDE![]()
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 son...
YOLANDI VISSER![]()
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
BOB DYLAN
BEN CLARK
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a cover... ROBERT CRAY We spend so much time and effort trying to write the best songs that we can write and pick the best ...
GARY LEVOX
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. JOHN MELLENCAMP I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
SIOBHAN FAHEY Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH
I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about. BEYONCE KNOWLES
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. KATY PERRY I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i...
VINCE NEIL Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.
DON DOKKEN
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicio... MANUEL PUIG It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of yo...
JOSH DUN I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try ...
ADAM SCHLESINGER Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural ...
ROGER WATERS I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriou...
JASON ISBELL No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock bal...
BON SCOTT I think just working as hard as we possibly can, without dying! And always, always trying to write t...
BILLY LUNN My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves BILL ANDERSON
If you're playing on a soft-sounding instrument like a Rhodes, you're not going to write honky-tonk ... CHRISTINE MCVIE I write the best book that I can write each time.
KAREN ROBARDS
I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th... MARILYN MANSON The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be inc...
PAUL WESTERBERG We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those pe...
ANDY BIERSACK
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... J. D. SOUTHER
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ... KRISTIN ARMSTRONG
I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e... AIMEE MANN
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... KELSEA BALLERINI
I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE
I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead ... STURGILL SIMPSON
I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of di... CARA DELEVINGNE
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the ... PETE TOWNSHEND To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about thi...
CHERRELLE We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, w...
BEN WINDSOR I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. An...
GUY CLARK
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood... LOU REED To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin...
BARRY MANILOW
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'... DOROTHY PARKER
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of ... HUGO CHAVEZ If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with ...
AYUMI HAMASAKI
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do i... ALDOUS HUXLEY
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what... ADELE As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying t...
DAVID NAIL We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut.
RICHARD ARCHER
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... BRIE LARSON
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I want to write a best-selling book.
DIANE ABBOTT We're kind of staggering the touring a bit at this point just to write more songs for our next recor...
STEVE BAYS All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
BON SCOTT It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ...
EMILY ROBISON
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. DAVID BOWIE I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is i...
AARON MARCUSSON
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... COREY TAYLOR
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... GEORGE HARRISON
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be. BEBE REXHA
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about. ALAN BENNETT The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen.
CINDY WALKER I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.
BEN MEZRICH
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. CASS MCCOMBS Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge ...
SARAH KEDDAR I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr...
BRUCE COCKBURN
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. J. D. SALINGER Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Somet...
MICHAEL CADNUM
I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs... GARY ALLAN
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. HARLAN HOWARD
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise -- just pencil sharpeners. HARLAN HOWARD I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There...
OTIS BLACKWELL Ben Harper came to us with some gospel songs in mind, and that worked. I thought that was a good ide...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than ...
MAREN MORRIS
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. HINTON
I've always idolized people who can write songs. RUPAUL I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
BILL WITHERS
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want somethin... ROBERT GOULD SHAW
You can best write about your own experiences. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We love rock 'n' roll. Being able to do what we do every night ? seeing the country and, hopefully, ...
AUGIE VISOCCHI I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th... T-PAIN There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. ...
ELMER BERNSTEIN I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can pl...
GEORGE THOROGOOD You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.
SABRINA CARPENTER
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. ELTON JOHN To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadi...
YOUNG JEEZY I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o...
IRIS DEMENT Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co...
JAKE OWEN
I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's wor... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It would suck for me to just be in the studio. We definitely want to tour, but two of us are married...
ROMULO COSTA I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock '...
JOHN CALE
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... LIAM GALLAGHER We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape...
BRAD CALLOW
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for... PAUL THEROUX I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
BRIAN A. MCBRIDE
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 son...
YOLANDI VISSER
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. BOB DYLAN
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all... 
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a ... 
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. 
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. 
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... 
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It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr... 
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. 
It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception doe... 
If you see the bandwagon you've missed it. 
If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small. 
Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls. 