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“My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.”

Ifs Writing I Can Song Down And Guitar Therapy My Best Friend Amazing Song

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Song Messages Boards My Time Want To Be Happy I Just Want To Be Happy Just Want To Be Happy

Author:Ben Gibbard

“I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.”

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Author:Ed Robertson

“It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.”

Ifs Writing Might Wanted Song Easy Stage Strange Careful Over It Take Control

Author:Kate Bush

“I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?”

People Ifs Thinking Book Helping Kids Song Religious Novel Dog Come Up Amazed Angle Santa Olives North Pole Reindeer

Author:Jabari Asim

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Young Song Heard Brother Singing First Time Brothers And Sisters Young Brother

Author:Adam Levine

“I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.”

Ifs Ends Moments Song Interest Lines Strange Sentences Not Sure Rhyme Interiors Emphasis Rhyming Playing Around

Author:Joanna Newsom

“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

Ifs Way Giving Believe Long Earth Song Watches One Day Majors Angel Harmony Glad Composer Minors Strain Everlasting Appearing Shepherds Jubilee

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.”

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Author:Scott Kahn

“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”

Ifs Way Self Song Passion Speak Strong Women Voice Space Opinion Heard And Love Aggressive Influential Self Trust Love And Passion Womanly Strong Opinions

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.”

Ifs Firsts Done Jobs Song Successful Heard Mines First Time Good Job

Author:Lyle Lovett

“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Littles Song Speak Intelligence Sensible Exquisite Hearing Loss

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.”

Ifs Looks Enough Facts Song Waiting Fans Exciting Bothered

Author:Bert McCracken

“I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be Take Me to Church, but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.”

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Author:Hozier

“If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.”

Ifs Men Years Said Song Six Lifetime Holiday Permission Berlin

Author:Sammy Cahn

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.”

Ifs Writing Matter Would Be Able Song Careers One Thing Drug Tools Addiction Alcohol If I Could Sober Drugs And Alcohol Alcohol Addiction

Author:Macklemore

“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Done Song Interest Hours Loses Forget Half Waste Take Me Forget It Little Time

Author:Bernie Taupin

“I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.”

Ifs Giving Song Opportunity Band Surround Overwhelmed

Author:Win Butler

“If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.”

Ifs Two Night Song Party Months Every Night Two Months

Author:G-Eazy

“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.”

Ifs Want Writing Doe Two Different Inspiration Song Heaven Guitar Stealing Different Things Acoustics Zeppelins Acoustic Guitar Stairways Stairway To Heaven

Author:Robin Thicke

“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Song Listening Grew Grew Up Beats Majority Glitter Gary Shuffle

Author:Martin Gore

“If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Heart Spirit Song Wind Quiet Longing Hearing Lifts Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.”

Ifs Song Missing

Author:Keith Richards

“If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.”

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Author:Bill Wyman

“I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Song Levels Emotional Criteria

Author:Robbie Robertson

“If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.”

Ifs Want Looks Song Nations Pay Attention Politician Dance Folks Folk Songs

Author:Agnes de Mille

“I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

Ifs Men Should Soul Age Night Song Fall Tears He Man Poet Sorrow Fame Combat Loved Ones Shed Consumed Weeping Dreary Forsaken Renowned

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Body Young Song Too Much Written Fascinated Human Body Paranoid Morbid Hypochondriac

Author:Ellie Goulding

“I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.”

Ifs World Giving Writing Soul Feelings Song Work Too Much Husband Giving Up Bother Performing My Husband

Author:Dolly Parton

“I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.”

Ifs I Can Running Song Voice My Own Police

Author:Charli XCX

“The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.”

People Ifs Song Morning Evening Hammers

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.”

Ifs Knows Feels Song Listening Music Is Unique Listening To Music

Author:Amy Grant

“I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.”

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Author:Amy Grant

“The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Stories Song Great Things Clarity

Author:Amy Grant

“If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.”

Ifs Song Church Air Fans Glory Yeah Electric Fists Pumps Hallelujah

Author:Gene Simmons

“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

Ifs Feels I Can Helping Pain Song Hurt Loss Audience Loneliness Cry Involved Guts Ache Lament Love Loss

Author:Frank Sinatra

“I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.”

Ifs Writing Song Rocks Fingers Rap Rap Song Rock Song

Author:Tom Lehrer

“My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.”

Ifs Giving Song Emotion Rocks Music Is Red Hot Spit Peppers Red Hot Chili Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers

Author:Kanye West

“Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.”

Ifs Writing Matter Song Keys Shelves Writing Songs Monotony Stacking

Author:Doc Brown

“I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.”

Ifs Thinking World Ideas Inspiration Certain Song Hours Projects Creating What If Melody Concerts Tied

Author:Jon Foreman

“When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!”

People Ifs Enough Song Asks Drink Singing Drinking Ask Me Drank

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.”

Ifs Want Song Humanity Easy Technology Records Too Much Four Hundred Tools Performances Guitar Track Productions Rebel Mentality Spontaneity Spoiled Overthinking

Author:Jack White

“We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.”

Ifs Stills Ideas Matter Enough Might Song Fun Attention Exciting Pay Attention Things That Matter Balancing Act

Author:Conor Oberst

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.”

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