Top 1200 Writing Songs Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

If I write songs trying to top other songs, it's a lot of pressure.

Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes together and I could hear what I wanted the songs to sound like, I just didn't know how to express it.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

We always say that National songs have to have a heart, that we don't make cold songs.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

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!

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

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.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write a song in the same vein because it's what I want to write.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

We've got songs for the women, songs for when you're going through things.

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

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.

I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.

The kind of fans I have are those who allow the songs to be part of their lives; indeed, it's as if the songs aren't mine anymore.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by 'The Luckiest' by Ben Folds.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you're writing to. It's very inspiring.