With ‘All Is Song,’ I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. – Samantha Harvey
And he was going to give me a song, because I’m a singer and I wanted to sing in everything. – Sally Kellerman
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let’s cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good. – Wayne Coyne
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. – Slick Rick
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. – Will Oldham
My favorite song is called ‘Reachout.’ There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period – there are a lot of classical influences. – Wynter Gordon
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like ‘You’re All I Need to Get By,’ it just writes itself. – Valerie Simpson
I really think that the ‘Jersey Boys’ musical – and this is just my opinion – lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because it’s a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions. – Vincent Piazza
I wanted to write a song about war and that classic ‘We want you’ recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter. – Troye Sivan
I think that the blues is in everything, so it’s not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go ‘Ooh ooh oooh,’ and that’s the blues. You hear a rock n’ roll song. That’s the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They’re playing the blues. – Wynton Marsalis
But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under. – Taylor Swift
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I’ve left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about. – Tommy Shaw
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
I rap on ‘Front Porch Junkies’ and ‘Whatcha Got in that Cup.’ I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It’s fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song. – Thomas Rhett
I’m never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I’m just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song. – Tom Scholz
Like most kids, I grew up singing ‘This Land Is Your Land’ in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. – Steve Earle
What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it. – Wayne Wonder
I made a decision when I started writing ‘All is Song’ to take the compliments I had for ‘The Wilderness’ and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it. – Samantha Harvey
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there’s some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. – Trey Parker
It’s always a live experience – anything that happens around you. It’s so easy to just put it to a song. – Wayne Wonder
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that. – Santiago Durango
I don’t set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what’s going on. – Stephen Stills
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there. – Shawn Amos