“I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.” KnowsPlayNightSongKnow HowBandEvery Night Author:Grant-Lee Phillips
“Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and The answers that you are content to not know.” KnowsSongAsksAnswersKnow HowBalanceSunshineCadence Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingYearsSongKnow HowSingers Author:Adele
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.” PeopleKnowsWayWantGivingFeelsYearsLooksLongSongMusicKnow HowSeriousHairLuckIncludingUglyFortunateSongwritingHeelsSongwritersHigh HeelsFingernails Author:Dolly Parton
“Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.” KnowsFeelsMomentsSongKnow HowOur LivesHarmonySuperiorsSuperiorityEnteringSomething BetterBetter Than YouSong And DanceDisharmony Author:Sri Chinmoy
“So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.” KnowsFormSongHouseStrongTalkingSituationKnow HowViolenceEatingExpectationsMalesFeministAvoidingPizzaHorrificSuperwomanSuper Woman Author:Kathleen Hanna
“We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.” KnowsInspirationalShouldWritingStillsSongKnow HowOur LivesCherishUnnoticedElegy Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.” KnowsWritingMindStillsUseSongKnow HowTunesWorking ItAuto Tune Author:T-Pain
“I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsKindAgeArtistSongKnow HowFiguresUnderstoodDressesWho You ArePrioritiesSongwritingClothings Author:Lights
“I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.” IfsKnowsWritingYearsSongKnownKnow HowWrittenHavensStrangerGlad Author:Bob Dylan
“What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go.” KnowsMeanTodayLastsRememberSongLinesKnow HowMusic IsStonesAlbumsRollingLiliesRolling Stones Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...” KnowsWritingWellsRealReasonPlayBigsSongKnow HowBandBeatsMachinesYeahInstrumentsGuitarFatsServingFlavorKeyboardsBetter Now Author:Mac DeMarco
“I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.” KnowsFirstsPersonsSongFeltKnow HowHeardRocksBottomSaved Author:Joey Badass