#songs

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me. ↗

— Will Oldham

#i #make #making #me #part

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. ↗

— Will Oldham

#find #give #hear #i #interactions

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#crazy #hard #i #some #songs

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#bands #business #cameras #difficult #expression

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person. ↗

— Adam Rich

#just #just one #make #person #really

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#connect #musician #never #people #songs

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in. ↗

— Dee Snider

#believe #believing #fighting #most #songs

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#before #believe #built #clown #coming

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point? ↗

— Robert Smith

#could #felt #i #point #really

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#because #call #confidence #day #doing