Fleur East quote: "Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists."

It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ...
EMILY ROBISON

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for...
AUDRA MCDONALD

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&...
ERIC AVERY

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit ...
JUSTIN VERNON

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a...
ED SHEERAN

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used...
RONNIE WOOD

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w...
BENMONT TENCH

I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge th...
LEONARD COHEN

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartb...
ADELE

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e...
AIMEE MANN

That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive ...
ALISON ELLIOTT

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a conce...
BUDDY DEFRANCO

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a ...
ADELE

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba...
RANDY BACHMAN

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They ar...
CASS ELLIOT

I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter...
JAMES BLUNT

Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs,...
ELLIE GOULDING

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a...
TANYA TUCKER

When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR.

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr...
BRUCE COCKBURN

Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ...
KARA DIOGUARDI

I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ...
ISAAC BROCK

I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri...
LUKE COMBS

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co...
JAKE OWEN

I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa...
J. D. SOUTHER

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs ...
PINK

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I wa...
KENNY CHESNEY

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song...
COREY TAYLOR

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
NEIL YOUNG

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical,...
RONNIE WOOD

There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change live...
TYLER FARR

And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w...
PRISCILLA AHN

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ...
ANI DIFRANCO

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks...
BRUNO MARS

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I ...
DAVID LYNCH

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better productio...
ALEXA RAY JOEL

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I alwa...
CHRIS STAPLETON

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when y...
CHRIS CORNELL

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha...
TOM LEHRER

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that...
SHELBY LYNNE

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it ...
CHAKA KHAN

With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album y...
PRISCILLA AHN

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my in...
KENNY G

There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu...
CRAIG ROBINSON

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e...
MALCOLM WILSON

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe...
ANDREA BARRETT

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; ju...
LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't ...
EMMY ROSSUM

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provinci...
STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There...
OTIS BLACKWELL

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to expr...
EL DEBARGE

I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
BETTY WHO

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think ...
JAKOB DYLAN

Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that reall...
JENNIFER DAMIANO

Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
TRENT REZNOR

When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w...
WYNTER GORDON

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much ...
ART ALEXAKIS

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write...
JULIANA HATFIELD

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience...
CHESTER BENNINGTON

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at d...
EDGAR WINTER

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why th...
ADELE

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho...
WASHED OUT

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.
DARREN CRISS

The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
CAM

You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see th...
CALVIN JOHNSON

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we ...
DAVE GROHL

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that ...
TATIANA MASLANY

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
RAY LAMONTAGNE

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ...
JIM VARNEY

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so muc...
JANE WIEDLIN

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when...
PRAS MICHEL

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it&...
DAVID ARCHULETA

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of yo...
JOSH DUN

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play any...
WAYNE KRAMER

One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i...
NATALIE COLE

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on whic...
MEL TORME

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons...
RACHEL PLATTEN

I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that i...
RUSSELL CROWE

It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind....
BILL MEDLEY

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's...
AURORA

When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking con...
BEYONCE KNOWLES

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them wer...
DOUGLAS HODGE

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during ...
TAYLOR KITSCH

Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ...
RICHIE HAVENS

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were...
KATE BUSH

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re...
CHARLIE DANIELS

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, ...
STEVIE WONDER

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work...
TAMMY BLANCHARD

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might...
CHRIS YOUNG

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so...
JAMES IHA

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to...
GOTYE

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