#song

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem. ↗

— Joe Elliott

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When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#change #cheesy #end #even #go

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them. ↗

— John Entwistle

#couple #got #i #per #problem

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #be different #because #could #different

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

#big success #conscious #create #follow #gets

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#brand new #buy #dare #disco #few

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#i #i do #i love #love #rock

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear. ↗

— John Fogerty

#bad #fact #good #good songs #hard

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point. ↗

— Ben Folds

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