Martin Gore
Related TOM PETTY CHRISTOPHER CROSS But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acous... TAYLOR MOMSEN I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a... KIESZA KINA GRANNIS DR. DRE When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself. IWAN RHEON It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. MAURICE GIBB One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Eve... MANFRED MANN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN CHRIS CORNELL HALSEY When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll ... RYAN ADAMS If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better... BRIAN WILSON JESSIE J CHAD KROEGER IDINA MENZEL 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw wi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE NIKKI SIXX DANIEL EK GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ... NATE RUESS ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER HARRY STYLES YOUNG THUG BEBE REXHA I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold ... TOM ODELL BILLY COLLINS If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can&... ELLA HENDERSON BRENDON URIE When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that ne... BENNY BLANCO LIL REL HOWERY I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to gra... MADI DIAZ If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company... WAYNE COYNE A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sin... GLEN HANSARD GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. I... ASHLEY TISDALE I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far mor... SYD BARRETT I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all ma... CASEY ABRAMS CAMILA CABELLO It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what h... VANCE JOY QUINCY JONES I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.' CHARLIE HADEN That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I c... JENNY LEWIS As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a st... BOZ SCAGGS I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a br... JORDIN SPARKS You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something yo... JOHN DARNIELLE It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you'... ESTER DEAN NICK CAVE When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT ELLIE GOULDING CHARLI XCX It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ... JENNY LEWIS JAMES SUROWIECKI When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people ... JANE LYNCH When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start s... PATRICK CARNEY It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that peop... GEMMA WARD I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music... ZEDD You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the... NEIL DIAMOND TRISHA YEARWOOD Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar. ALEX CLARE JOHN OATES You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.' PAUL SHAFFER No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrot... ISAAC HANSON If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! A... JEWEL I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming ... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. RAY CHARLES KYGO CEELO GREEN I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been beca... BILLY ECKSTINE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs... KELLIE PICKLER ALEX KAPRANOS Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive ... BETTY WRIGHT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALEX EBERT JULIE ANDREWS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ... ANN POWERS FRANK OCEAN HENRY ROLLINS For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I ... MARC ALMOND I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l... NADIA ALI Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&... BENNY BLANCO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a s... CHRIS RIDDELL COREY TAYLOR I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a... ISAAC BROCK BEN E. KING Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha... BETH ORTON I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangem... TOM SCHOLZ SHAWN MENDES ACTION BRONSON
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I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... 
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. 
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui... 
It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Hodor," said Hodor. 
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of ... 
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... 
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the ... 
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think... 
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... 
I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going thro... 
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar,... 
You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. 
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ... 
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... 
If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap... 
It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if yo... 
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... 
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau... 
I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've go... 
I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, a... 
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ... 
Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives y... 
I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and yo... 
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'... 
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that ... 
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h... 
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a... 
With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a so... 
When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling. 
It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme. 
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public ... 
A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after i... 
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That&... 
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no g... 
When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires... 
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment... 
I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it... 
There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the tw... 
Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write ou... 
I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as... 
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. T... 
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunatel... 
There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The... 
As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo... 
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co... 
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. 
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c... 
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which ... 
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. 
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... 
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos... 
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. 
Settling other people's land is an American tradition. 
I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash. 
The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body... 
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ... 
I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for m... 
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. ...