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“The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.”

Thinking Way Wells Two Song Process Situation Gone Depends

Author:Michael McKean

“I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Looks Able Song Given Blessing Great Gifts

Author:Teena Marie

“I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.”

Thinking Want Song Singers

Author:David Nail

“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

“I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.”

Thinking Knows Want Song Fans Fine Know Me Personal Relationships

Author:Will Oldham

“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.”

Thinking Song Visuals

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“I really didn't think about song writing.”

Thinking Writing Song

Author:Adam Rich

“I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.”

Thinking Firsts Song Terrible Songwriters

Author:Graham Russell

“I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.”

Thinking Song Love Is Numbers Successful Records My Favorite Radio Favorite Song

Author:Graham Russell

“I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.”

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Author:Graham Russell

“I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!”

Thinking Men Song Crazy Hips Gorgeous

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Song Scared Salt Karaoke

Author:Yvonne Strahovski

“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".”

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Author:Miles Teller

“I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.”

Thinking Bigs Artist Song Written Refuse Mainstream Appreciated Chorus

Author:Ryan Tedder

“Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.”

People Thinking Different Used Song

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.”

Thinking Song Type Melody Composer Old Fashioned

Author:Toru Takemitsu

“It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.”

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Author:Keith Urban

“A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.”

Thinking Song Happenings Lifetime Inspired Life Changing Good Life Time Love Once In A Lifetime

Author:Keith Urban

“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.”

Thinking Made Hard Song Party Who I Am Good And Bad Hard Life

Author:Gretchen Wilson

“If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.”

Ifs Thinking Song Sound Voice Mad

Author:Jessie Ware

“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.”

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Author:Scott Weiland

“I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.”

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Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.”

People Thinking Mean Song Bugs

Author:Ray LaMontagne

“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.”

People Thinking Writing May Song Parent Sad Song

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.”

People Thinking Way Littles Song Can Do Rooms Listeners Disservice

Author:St. Vincent

“Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.”

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Author:Mark Hall

“God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.”

Thinking Song Millions Saved Enjoyed

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”

“I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and she’s a really good writer. I’m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think she’s dope.”

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Author:Mike Posner

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

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Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”

Thinking Song Situation

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

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Author:Andrew Dost

“Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.”

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Author:Nelson Eddy

“I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.”

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Author:Curtis Jackson

“I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Song Welfare Engaged

Author:Ian MacKaye

“When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.”

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Author:PSY

“I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.”

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Author:Rico Love

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

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Author:Gerry Beckley

“I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.”

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Author:Beth Gibbons

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