#song

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public. ↗

— Ben E. King

#enough #even #guitar #i #i can

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that. ↗

— Charles King

#chorus #i #i can #i think #just

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together. ↗

— Charles King

#arguing #bring #fill #guarantee #homophobic

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal. ↗

— Charles King

#i #i think #just #like #music

We influence singing but never really songwriting. ↗

— Charles King

#never #really #singing #songwriting

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal. ↗

— Kerry King

#become #deal #done #finished #go

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about. ↗

— Kerry King

#become #best #captured #did #had

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#neither #planet #save #songs #speeches

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#fact #i #i can #in fact #joke