#song

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. ↗

— William Brewster

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I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time. ↗

— Ray Brown

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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#add #extra #friend #i #just

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador. ↗

— Sammy Cahn

#america #greatest #popular #song

That's what my life is, writing songs. ↗

— John Cale

#my life #songs #writing

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

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I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#arrange #being #club #fairly #good

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#anything #coming #conviction #decent #done

I started writing songs at age 15. ↗

— Vince Clarke

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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. ↗

— Gene Clark

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