#song

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. ↗

— Diana Krall

#difficult #emotional #i #know #life

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs. ↗

— Gene Ween

#before #beginning #breakup #direct #end

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#chops #completely #develop #different #driven

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago. ↗

— Paul Weller

#ago #conscious #could #i #ones

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about. ↗

— Jack White

#been #before #dangerous #ever #love

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#am #bad #came #good #good and bad

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song. ↗

— John Wozniak

#great #never #play #song #which

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#cool #haggard #harmony #husband #i

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#character #like #me #movie #movies

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#circumstances #depending #extremely #fortunately #fulfilling