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“I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.”

“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.”

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Author:Scott Weiland

“To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?”

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Author:Corey Taylor

“I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.”

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Author:Corey Taylor

“I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.”

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Author:Valerie June

“I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, its a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.”

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Author:Nikki Sixx

“The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.”

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Author:Colm Toibin

“Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit”

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Author:Ed Sheeran

“When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.”

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Author:Michael Patrick Walker

“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.”

“When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.”

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Author:Jack White

“There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.”

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Author:John Legend

“I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.”

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Author:Keith Richards

“I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.”

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Author:Chris McCaughan

“I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.”

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Author:Joshua Radin

“If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.”

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Author:Joshua Radin

“I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that. I jot down lyrics wherever I am. Usually it's on a vomit bag on an airplane or something. I just look for a pen.”

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Author:Joshua Radin

“The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.”

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Author:Bob Weir

“The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.”

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Author:Steven Tyler

“I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.”

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Author:John Legend

“It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Simple Plan`s trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.”

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Author:Chuck Comeau

“It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.”

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Author:Elton John

“I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.”

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Author:Scott Weiland

“I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.”

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Author:Dar Williams

“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.”

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Author:T-Pain

“They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.”

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Author:T-Pain

“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.”

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Author:Jakob Dylan

“As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?”

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“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.”

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Author:M. Ward

“I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.”

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Author:Yann Tiersen

“There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.”

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Author:Del Shannon

“I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.”

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Author:George Harrison

“It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.”

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Author:Carrie Brownstein

“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.”

“My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.”

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Author:Sharon Van Etten

“My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.”

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Author:Imogen Heap

“I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing”

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Author:Ray Davies

“A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.”

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Author:Alber Elbaz

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