#song

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chords #fit #folds #healthy #how

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#any #arena #beginning #big #booming

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you. ↗

— Alan Vega

#been #couple #dark #did #got

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#credibility #good #got #hood #hook

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#i #never #political #save #save the world

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arrangement #confess #dearth #fifteen #find

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#different #different things #done #drawn #early

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#acoustic guitar #grand #guitar #piano #play

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. ↗

— Evan Dando

#come #first #i #i write #later