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Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.


Charli XCX

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HOAGY CARMICHAEL If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t...
GEORGE STRAIT Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian R...
CASEY ABRAMS I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &...
FEFE DOBSON When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling.
KYGO I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ...
BARRY MANILOW If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's...
ALEX CHILTON It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you'...
ESTER DEAN Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt o...
CARLENE CARTER The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make som...
DAVE MATTHEWS If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap...
YOUNG THUG One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Eve...
MANFRED MANN There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it&...
BRYAN ADAMS I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo...
CHRIS MARTIN Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel...
JOSE JAMES There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwin...
NICK LACHEY The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
KELSEA BALLERINI It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the m...
STEVE AOKI I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' ...
BLAKE SHELTON You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no g...
JULIE ANDREWS When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm wr...
BENNY BLANCO I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really c...
KELLY CLARKSON I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' s...
BOB SEGER It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It&#...
AYUMI HAMASAKI The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I...
JACKIE EVANCHO When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there...
LUKE BRYAN I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. I...
JOE ELLIOTT I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ...
ED SHEERAN I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin...
NATE RUESS I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi...
STEVIE WONDER I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as...
SHAWN MENDES I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe...
JAY-Z I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been beca...
BILLY ECKSTINE While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what&...
DAVID ANTIN I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,...
NAYVADIUS CASH I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eat...
HAYLIE DUFF I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've go...
LIL REL HOWERY I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far mor...
SYD BARRETT If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui...
KINA GRANNIS When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
SIA I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It&...
BECKY G All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when...
MIKE POSNER Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That&...
ALEX EBERT When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think...
CHAD KROEGER Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's ol...
BECKY G Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - ...
SUMMER GLAU I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get ...
BRUCE COVILLE I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. I...
ASHLEY TISDALE I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go throu...
BECKY G I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it&...
BRAD PAISLEY I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'...
TAJ MAHAL I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and ...
AUBREY PLAZA Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri...
HUNTER HAYES I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L....
BENNY BLANCO Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
DARON MALAKIAN I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i...
HOZIER I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a...
KIESZA The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music...
JENNIFER HUDSON The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'...
LIL UZI VERT I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they&...
BECKY G If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company...
WAYNE COYNE That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a wo...
HARRY STYLES Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you k...
CEELO GREEN I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and...
AMY WINEHOUSE I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all ma...
CASEY ABRAMS When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, wh...
MARTIN GORE There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might...
CHRIS YOUNG I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
SAMMY CAHN Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video'...
CANDICE ACCOLA Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the ot...
CASSANDRA WILSON I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from...
ROBERT PALMER What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.
DAVID ARCHULETA I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, wr...
LUDACRIS I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, vis...
JON ANDERSON I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that...
LYLE LOVETT Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
TABLO 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw wi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what h...
VANCE JOY When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even ...
K'NAAN Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyda...
VILLE VALO I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
SEAN KINGSTON Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that rea...
TAYLOR DANE I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a...
MARY LAMBERT I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me lic...
JILL SOBULE You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th...
HARRY STYLES It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an i...
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