#song

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet. ↗

— Beth Orton

#also #always #because #before #drum

I love story songs because I've always loved books. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#because #books #i #i love #love

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. ↗

— Katy Perry

#appreciate #boring #cool #different #different sides

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#album #any #buy #duress #emotional

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#direction #hollywood #i #just #like

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#baritone #clarinet #elements #even #flute

We've written something like 900 songs in all. ↗

— Barry Mann

#something #songs #written

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#adult #any #choruses #hook #i

People take songs so literally. ↗

— Richard Marx

#people #songs #take

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#actually #hearing #interested #lot #memory