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When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, wh... MARTIN GORE It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative cro...
BARRY MANN
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the ... JESSIE J It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself...
SAM DEW It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
MAURICE GIBB When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... HARRY STYLES I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a...
KIESZA Write 100 things that you love about your partner. Its another way of keeping yourself in check. I...
CHRIS PIRILLO If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better...
BRIAN WILSON
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. ALVIN AILEY Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you...
BRUCE ROBINSON
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'
PAUL SHAFFER I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've...
IWAN RHEON I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, ...
IWAN RHEON The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife&#...
IWAN RHEON I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting....
IWAN RHEON
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. WALTER BECKER
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ... M. WARD There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee...
VALERIE SIMPSON
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a... LOIS LOWRY
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a... JOHN OATES
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... BILLY COLLINS I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a...
ISAAC BROCK When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that ne...
BENNY BLANCO
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. KARIN SLAUGHTER When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ...
JOSE GONZALEZ
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point i... JUDITH MARTIN
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when yo... MAC MILLER
It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme. CEELO GREEN
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get you... ED SHEERAN When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
EVAN DANDO
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... IDINA MENZEL You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the...
NEIL DIAMOND There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
BEN MEZRICH
There's no one to stop you but yourself. DAVE THOMAS
I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ... ADAM DRIVER Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive ...
BETTY WRIGHT One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Eve...
MANFRED MANN
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
E. L. JAMES
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to ... SADE ADU I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the...
TROYE SIVAN
When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. MITCHELL BAKER
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a wo... HARRY STYLES
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours... SIDNEY SHELDON There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwin...
NICK LACHEY I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.
JAKE OWEN To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 ...
LORNE MICHAELS
I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason... RICHARD BRANSON
It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back... DR. DRE If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! A...
JEWEL
Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show. JOHNNY VAN ZANT There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
BARBARA BROCCOLI
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn... DON MCLEAN I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming ...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR.
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every ... NOEL GALLAGHER When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you ...
CHRIS LILLEY
Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse,... CASSANDRA CLARE If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that.... KID ROCK When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to gra...
MADI DIAZ
People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. JANET JACKSON
When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires... FRANK OCEAN
It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for... OLLY MURS
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in ... OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo... ANNETTE BENING There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD
As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's publishe... DAVID BERGEN I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l...
NADIA ALI When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget...
CLARENCE CLEMONS Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&...
BENNY BLANCO There's something cool about traveling when you're young. There's a sense of camaraderie...
COBIE SMULDERS
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a worko... DANICA MCKELLAR
With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a so... RAY CHARLES
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sin... JASON MRAZ
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH
Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? ... STEVE WINWOOD
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's... DAVID SEDARIS If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to w...
ADAM SCHLESINGER
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they ... BRAD PAISLEY
I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to... SAMMY CAHN
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a go... JONI MITCHELL I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good w...
IAN HART
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song. MASANOBU FUKUOKA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong ...
JEWEL
It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if yo... BEBE REXHA
It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align them... LYKKE LI I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &...
FEFE DOBSON Every record, you want it to be different, and you write differently in different cities. We wrote a...
STEVE BAYS That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little bette...
STEVE BLAKE It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfec...
HAYLEY HASSELHOFF In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, ...
PAULA FOX Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's w...
JIM GAFFIGAN
But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public o... ED SHEERAN
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics? CHRISTOPHER MOORE If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
