But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.
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Related You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Littl... SHANE FILAN I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a... KIESZA A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in ... OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They'r... BENNY BLANCO Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don... GREG GRAFFIN Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It ha... NEIL GAIMAN Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You... TREY PARKER When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' ... BLAKE SHELTON I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been beca... BILLY ECKSTINE I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thou... TAJ MAHAL You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t... JAKE OWEN A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for ... DAVID BOWIE The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million pe... VINCE STAPLES I believe everyone should have that 1 song that describes their life.
And that one song that describ... SONYA.E.WILLIAMS One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... BILLY COLLINS I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and... AMY WINEHOUSE The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're... DAVE GROHL I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really pers... JEREMY JORDAN The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. ... DAVID CROSBY There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It'... ETHAN COEN It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. MAURICE GIBB If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that... OPHELIA LOVIBOND Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Some... MARK KNOPFLER When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget... CLARENCE CLEMONS Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g... JAKE OWEN I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. T... ACTION BRONSON I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claimin... EDDY GRANT With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album y... PRISCILLA AHN If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion... JASON ISBELL You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs tha... ACTION BRONSON A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, ... DOROTHY FIELDS 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 When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ... STEVEN ADLER There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee... VALERIE SIMPSON You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I... DIANA KRALL It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you'... ESTER DEAN When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn... DON MCLEAN I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t... T-PAIN For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's thos... HILARY ROSEN Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, ... MARVIN HAMLISCH I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I... RIHANNA Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian R... CASEY ABRAMS It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is go... THOMAS RHETT Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that... DANIEL EK As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because i... ART ALEXAKIS You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s... ROBERT TIZON You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s... CONFUCIUS You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s... OSCAR WILDE You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s... SAM KEEN You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s... ASHISH KUMAR I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a br... JORDIN SPARKS You used to have to come to America for 18 months and drive around in a van, trying to get radio sta... JAMES CORDEN I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... TOM PETTY I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a... MARY LAMBERT To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have ... GARBORG Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the e... BENMONT TENCH When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'... JOHNNY CASH I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped... JOHN DARNIELLE I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me... VALERIE JUNE You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything.... JASON ALDEAN I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a... ISAAC BROCK If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke... AVICII You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.' PAUL SHAFFER I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o... B. B. KING If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! A... JEWEL You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their g... JOHNNY CASH If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. CHRISTOPHER CROSS Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive ... BETTY WRIGHT They sing the song to celebrate their victory. Singing it would amount to selling my soul. HUIMIN WANG Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&... BENNY BLANCO They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will hap... EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise ... ALESSANDRO NIVOLA Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. IAN FRAZIER You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you. STEVE FORBERT When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might r... MACKLEMORE In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also throug... PRISCILLA AHN Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just le... YAEL NAIM I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, b... DELTA GOODREM Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your ... MICHAEL JACKSON If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to tha... JAY ASHER If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that s... JAY ASHER It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the ... JESSIE J I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno... SHY GLIZZY It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the... SHANE MCANALLY Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. I... JOE ELLIOTT A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. DOROTHY FIELDS It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put i... WAYNE WONDER I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love th... L.J. SMITH I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day,... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Ha ha, we kicked your (expletive). Sox fans still love that song. They just had a public poll out he... ERIC SODERHOLM I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and ... AUBREY PLAZA I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice... MARNIE STERN If you want to page me, It's OK! I've actually had guys tell me they were fans from the '... CHRISTINA MILIAN I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music... JENNIFER HUDSON You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... HARRY STYLES I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. T... TOMMY LEE
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I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a... ED SHEERAN I've always had really messy hair. ED SHEERAN In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude. ED SHEERAN I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get thi... ED SHEERAN Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them. ED SHEERAN It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. ED SHEERAN The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very... ED SHEERAN I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... ED SHEERAN The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereot... ED SHEERAN I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal thin... 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ED WESTWICK I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only h... ED OXENBOULD Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts o... ED GREENWOOD There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old... ED KOCH Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. ED MARKEY Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette... ED BRADLEY One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ED SMITH Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost ... ED RENDELL Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience. ED TOWNSEND Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead? ED SULLIVAN I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to b... ED STOPPARD 'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to creat... ED STOPPARD In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in... ED STOPPARD I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want. ED STOPPARD The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian... ED STOPPARD I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and ... ED STOPPARD It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of ... ED STOPPARD It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan. ED STOPPARD I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them. ED STOPPARD Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. ED STOPPARD If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent. ED STOPPARD I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. ED STOPPARD I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind... ED STOPPARD The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played ... ED SPELEERS I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can... ED SPELEERS I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possi... ED SPELEERS Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic s... ED SPELEERS I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special. ED SPELEERS I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at... ED SPELEERS My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, a... ED SPELEERS I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t... ED SPELEERS I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoug... ED SPELEERS I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan... ED SPELEERS I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at. ED SKREIN You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive. ED SKREIN However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it. ED SKREIN I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and... ED SKREIN Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un... ED ROYCE The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This i... ED ROYCE The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implement... ED ROYCE Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a cou... ED ROYCE A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that e... ED ROYCE Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be mo... ED ROYCE I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and... ED ROYCE The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq. ED ROYCE The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done th... ED ROYCE I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives. ED ROYCE The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e... ED ROYCE Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin... ED ROYCE The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T... ED ROYCE The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities ... ED ROYCE Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will... ED ROYCE I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th... ED ROYCE History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can... ED ROYCE What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov... ED ROLLINS I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi... ED ROLLINS I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec... ED ROLLINS Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare... ED ROLLINS I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'... ED ROLLINS There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton. ED ROLLINS One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never... ED ROLLINS I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev... ED ROLLINS While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our ... ED PASTOR Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better. ED PASTOR I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more r... ED PASTOR Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s... ED PASTOR While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ED PASTOR Health care should be affordable for everyone. ED PASTOR Make health care a right, not a privilege. ED PASTOR As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important thi... ED PASTOR Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. ED PASTOR Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ED PASTOR What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ED PARKER With every social media, there's hate and things like that. ED OXENBOULD I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily. ED OXENBOULD I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would... ED OXENBOULD I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible... ED OXENBOULD I love working in America! ED OXENBOULD I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a... ED OXENBOULD I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,... ED OXENBOULD My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just s... ED OXENBOULD I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls. ED OXENBOULD I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan... ED OXENBOULD Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ... ED OXENBOULD My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do... ED O'NEILL I channel surf like probably most people. ED O'NEILL I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it. ED O'NEILL I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career. ED O'NEILL I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to... ED O'NEILL Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money. ED O'NEILL I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And tha... ED O'NEILL I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very... ED O'NEILL I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, ... ED O'NEILL I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ... ED O'NEILL Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there... ED O'NEILL In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve... ED O'NEILL I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g... ED O'NEILL I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie. ED O'NEILL All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe... ED O'NEILL I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested... ED O'NEILL I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I... ED O'NEILL That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w... ED O'NEILL When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju... ED O'NEILL There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min... ED O'BRIEN What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som... ED O'BRIEN So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t... ED O'BRIEN We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the... ED O'BRIEN For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. ED O'BRIEN At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ... ED O'BRIEN It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali... ED O'BRIEN Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning. ED O'BRIEN The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t... ED O'BRIEN But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w... ED O'BRIEN