“When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.” KnowsKindLittlesStillsSongBitsWeekStageLittle BitWorn Author:Jeff Lynne
“I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.” IfsDifferentWould BeTodaySongNextRecordsWeekExcitingNaiveNext WeekIdealistic Author:Sondre Lerche
“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.” WritingWellsHardInspirationSongHoursWeekHard WorkGuitarPiano Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus
“I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.” NeedsHeartSoulSongWeekMy HeartHeart And Soul Author:Beth Gibbons
“If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.” IfsMadeTwoLastsSongWeekMonthsMade ItTwo Weeks Author:Danny Brown
“I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!” WritingMomentsHappensSongSexCareersFiveWeekExcitingBlockWriter's Block Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.” SongGirlWeekLettersSingersMaking LoveBoudoir Author:Frank Sinatra
“You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.” FirstsSongRecordsWeekFansCoupleShapesPicksCriticsGuitarReactionsPhrasesIrelandLoadAutobiographyBaggage Author:Ellie Goulding
“When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.” WantedSongFeltWeekMessagesExcitedMelodyVery StrongHaunting Author:Brendon Urie
“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.” HelpingJobsSongRecordsWeekNeededTwentiesLibraryCongressCollectionsTranscribing Author:Pete Seeger
“I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.” WritingLongSometimesLightSongProcessFourWeekLong TimeAlbums Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.” WorldWritingEndsEnoughSongWeekCarTenPaidSellsForty Author:Scott Weiland
“I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.” MindSongThreeSoundWrittenWeekMinutesHavensWorkersSatisfiedTake Me Author:Nick Lowe
“It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.” LooksTwoBeautifulSongNextDarkSunWeekSkyBlueCome UpWowTwo WeeksBlue SkyMistyAlps Author:Jeff Lynne
“I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.” WritingMindStatesSongCoursesHellWeekEmotionalComfortableBases Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.” IfsFeelsWritingI CanSometimesMomentsSongPiecesWeekMonthsTestsHonestlyHopefullyCaptureEditsTest Of Time Author:Macklemore
“When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remember that's when I thought: Maybe I'm gonna be a singer.” RememberSongGirlFunWeekSingersI Realized Author:Lady Saw