#song

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens. ↗

— Phil Collins

#because #become #been #better #bit

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. ↗

— Phil Collins

#bring #by the time #disappointment #fantastic #finished

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#passed #sang #she #songs #until

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#again #close #country #country music #drunk

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#better #every #friend #get #i

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#because #career #greatest #greatest hits #had

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long. ↗

— Keith Urban

#case #i #i think #long #looking

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. ↗

— Keith Urban

#collected #collecting #costly #get #had

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#catchy #doing #harmonic #i #instrumental