#song

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing. ↗

— Macklemore

#comfort zone #compelling #different #get #interesting

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings. ↗

— Joel Madden

#broke #cell #cell phone #how #i

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#band #clear #clear idea #every #how

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#being #female #hear #many #men

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#songs #spiritual #subliminal

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#doing #every #hit #i #knew

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#guy #i #screams #smash #song

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#because #elusive #hard #hold #how

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#conclusion #done #i #just #kind

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#hear #makes #quartet #sense #some