#song

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life. ↗

— Justin Hayward

#biography #diary #form #heart #i

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us. ↗

— Dave Haywood

#i #i think #itself #kind #love

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town. ↗

— Faith Hill

#best #family #fantastic #great #greatest

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting. ↗

— Ken Hill

#important #important aspect #location #songwriting #very

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. ↗

— Jerome Hines

#long #praising #saviour #song #story

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV. ↗

— Rupert Holmes

#arenas #became #because #clubs #concerts

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#every #every single day #go #gym #i

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. ↗

— Neil Innes

#goes #gorilla #i #mean #our

Isolation is a big part of songwriting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#isolation #part #songwriting