Writing Songs Quotes

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Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

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

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

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

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.