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With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.
Luke Bryan
Tags: Best You Every
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
Kelly Jones
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I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.


Alanis Morissette
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I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
Todd Rundgren
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.


David Bowie
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.


Wayne Coyne
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My production got better, songs, lyrics, everything; the sound, the quality, everything.


Ty Dolla Sign
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
Taylor Swift
Tags: You Me Like
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
Wayne Kramer
A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
Brittany Howard
Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
Dick Dale
Tags: Time Me Never
The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.
Alan Furst
Tags: You Me Just
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I have no time to write songs.


Priyanka Chopra
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
Kate Voegele
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I write my songs because I've lived them.


Katy Perry
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I've always tended to write songs prolifically.


David Bowie
Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.
Glenn Tipton
Tags: Work Just Who
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Some people take pictures; I write songs.


Lee DeWyze
Tags: People Some Take
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
Macklemore
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Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
David Bowie