“The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.” PeopleSoulFeelingsMovingVoiceSimpleWrittenSingingGuitarPoetry IsLots Of MoneyJeopardy Author:Anton Yelchin
“I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.” MenFeelsBeautifulAliveWrittenSingingMail Author:Mandy Patinkin
“I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.” WellsTogetherWrittenListeningSingingEmbraceJazzTherapyRealising Author:Amy Winehouse
“I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.” IfsThinkingWritingImportantHardAbleSongStuffWrittenSingingRelate Author:Cody Simpson
“I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.” WayYearsLongI CanSongWrittenLong TimeSingingInspired Author:Angel Olsen
“It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.” WayDifferentSeemsWrittenStyleSingingMusicalPopsTheatreArguingDifferent StylesMusical Theatre Author:Julian Ovenden
“There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!” WritingHas BeensMomentsSongWrittenPeriodsSingingTherapeuticProzac Author:Gerry Rafferty
“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.” PeopleShouldBoysWrittenBandSingingHeightGreat HeightsBoy BandsPretty People Author:Eddie Izzard
“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.” WritingFirstsLongWantedSongFoundEasyMy OwnWrittenHeardSingingFolksRadioMelodyJimmyIntegratingWriting Songs Author:Mickey Newbury
“It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.” ShowsKidsAbleSongHoursRoomsWrittenSingingAirplaneFar AwaySurrealFourteenVery Cool Author:Adam Young
“It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.” SometimesSongEnjoyWrittenMonthsSinging Author:Matt Shultz
“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.” PeopleWorldYearsStillsLastsFacesSongWrittenTruth IsCostNewsSingingSongwritingSongwritersSchedulesAccusedWhalesSinger SongwritersWriting SongsStance Author:David Crosby