Writing Songs Quotes (page 3)

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• heartbreak
• song
• writing

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. Adele

• feeling
• song
• writing

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane. Taylor Swift

• to live
• dead
• writing

Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy" is not like Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real. Chuck Klosterman

• little
• hope
• tears

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness. Bono

• she
• end
• grief

Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing. George R. R. Martin

• song
• writing
• songs

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. Jimmy Buffett

• song
• writing
• play

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. Gerry Mulligan

• simple
• song
• writing

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. Van Morrison

• feeling
• music
• song

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. Van Morrison

• song
• writing
• intellectual

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

• song
• writing
• songs

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. Alanis Morissette

• professional
• soccer
• being with friends

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha! Alanis Morissette

• song
• writing
• die

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question. Alanis Morissette

• writing
• song
• music

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. Moby

• emotional
• song
• writing

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. John Mellencamp