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“I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!”

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Author:Jiah Khan

“I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.”

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Author:Kyle Dunnigan

“I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.”

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Author:Miguel

“I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.”

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Author:Brian Fallon

“I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.”

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Author:Alexis Taylor

“The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!”

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Author:John Fogerty

“We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.”

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Author:Matt Stone

“The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me.”

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Author:Kelsea Ballerini

“My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.”

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Author:Richard Hawley

“If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.”

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Author:Elton John

“I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.”

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Author:Mose Allison

“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.”

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Author:Matt Berninger

“I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.”

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Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.”

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Author:Judy Collins

“The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.”

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Author:Waylon Jennings

“Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves”

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Author:Bill Anderson

“I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.”

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Author:Neko Case

“The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.”

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Author:Emmylou Harris

“I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.”

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Book:Born of a woman: new and selected poems

Source: Born of a woman: new and selected poems

“When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.”

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Author:Austin Carlile

“Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'”

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Author:Emmy Rossum

“I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective”

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Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman

“As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.”

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Author:James Bay

“I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time.”

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Author:Ludacris

“In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.”

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Author:Bjork

“I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.”

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Author:Ben Harper

“Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.”

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Author:Benjamin Booker

“Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.”

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Author:Michael Kosser

“Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.”

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Author:Michael Kosser

“That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.”

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Author:Michael Kosser

“Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.”

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Author:Hunter Hayes

“I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.”

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Author:Kaki King

“Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.”

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Author:Neko Case

“If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.”

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Author:F. Paul Wilson

“Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called "Kitten." It was about a boy named Liam, who I was just crazy about.”

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Author:Bonnie McKee

“I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

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