#song

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#along #came #few #incredibly #making

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#ever #get #give #i #ideas

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#based #believe #constant #country #country music

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour. ↗

— Eminem

#go #head #hour #i #into

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#business #career #could #find #give

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. ↗

— Brian Eno

#even #had #head #i #lot

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. ↗

— Brian Eno

#format #get #getting #longer #much

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. ↗

— Brian Eno

#been #case #few #i #i can

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song. ↗

— Paul Epworth

#because #change #greater #greater power #language

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. ↗

— Bono

#age #between #closed #digital #doing