#song

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#arrived #because #better #between #fine

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. ↗

— Neil Peart

#already #five #guy #i #just

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#everything #find #great #great truth #hammerstein

Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#aiming #background #definitely #going #having

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#annals #day #feeling #had #i

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. ↗

— Robert Plant

#developed #exaggeration #i #key #kind

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#hoax #i #life #my life #never

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film. ↗

— Alan Price

#asterisks #before #demo #felt #film

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. ↗

— Robert Quine

#familiar #i #nasty #songs #stones