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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Christina Perri on music genres
“I think it’s important not to be placed in a genre. I’ve always been a jumble of all my favourite artists which just happen to be a really wide range—from Dean Martin to Alanis Morissette and Fiona...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Gamble & Huff’s Leon Huff on what makes a great song
Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (right) “A great song has to make you feel a certain way. Songs can make you happy and sad, they can help you fall in love. They have to do something. That’s when you get a...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY – Mike Batt on how to deal with songwriter’s block
“My advice to songwriters who can’t write anything on a given day is to just write something. Some shit. A crap verse. It might lead to an interesting chorus that wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY – Diane Warren on her ‘method acting’ approach to songwriting
“I can’t say that I actually live what I write. It is the method actor type of writing that I do. I know what people think and feel so I write those feelings the best that I can. “I see pictures in my...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Joni Mitchell on her filmic approach to writing songs
“My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I’m a frustrated filmmaker… It’s very visual. You’re scoring the actress, but the actress is singing the lines and trying to get them as conversational...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Stevie Wonder on putting emotion into songs
“I think melodies are like angels from heaven expressing a place for the heart to follow … “You feel moments of passion in a tender way and moments of passion in a way that’s like ‘Let’s hit it’....
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Smokey Robinson on the gift of songwriting
Photo: Dwight McCann “There’s really no art to songwriting. I think it’s a gift. I think that everybody gets a gift, God gives everyone a gift … “That’s why I’m not one of those songwriters where I...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Brian Wilson on his songwriting process
“The creative process is something that you kind of learn. You get a feel for it the better you get at it … “I take walks at a park and that clears my brain out and makes me able to write songs better...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY – Steve Earle on great songwriting and inspiration
“From my experience, I can count on one of Billy Joe Shaver’s hands the number of times that a song was purely inspiration. The vast majority of the time, I get a verse, or a chorus, and that’s it –...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ed Sheeran on how extreme moods can help songwriters create...
“If I write a song, there has to be a catalyst. It can’t just be like ‘I had a nice day’. It has to be like ‘I had the best day ever’ or the worst day ever. You can’t write a song from a bland...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: John Mayer on why life as a songwriter is never boring
“All I’ve ever wanted out of music is to look forward to waking up the next morning and seeing what’s going to come out of the guitar and what I’m going to figure out and what I’m going to create.”...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ed Sheeran on what inspires his songwriting
Photo: Eva Rinaldi “I’ve only ever written songs from the heart. I don’t really see the point in making music if it’s not an expression of self or a form of therapy. “I could go three months without...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Motown legend Lamont Dozier on what it takes to succeed as...
“Knock on every door, and write seven days a week. I know that sounds kind of harsh, but let that be your priority. Write, write and write some more. “Your work ethic has got to be to the bone....
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Adele on how she knows when she has written a good song
“In order for me to feel confident with one of my songs it has to really move me. That’s how I know that I’ve written a good song for myself – it’s when I start crying. It’s when I break out in tears...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Elton John on his songwriting process with Bernie Taupin
“I just go to the studio and there are 24 lyrics [from Bernie Taupin] waiting for me and I look through them and see which one I want to start with, and then I try and write a song. I never, ever know...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Damon Albarn on the secret to good songwriting …
“What is songwriting? What is it all about? … True songwriters are people who are able to release themselves from something that’s really affected them by writing a song about it. “Some of us see it...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Lionel Richie on breaking the rules of songwriting
“I didn’t know I was a writer. I thought you had to be able to read and write music and understand theory before you could write songs. Then as I got into Motown, I realized probably half of the...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Nick Jonas on the importance of writing songs from your own...
“The beauty of songwriting is that we have the ability to tell our stories, and it means something to us. But then you open it up to other people, and their experience and how it affects their lives....
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Dolly Parton on why songwriting is so important to her …
“If I had to give up everything else, if people said you can only do one thing, I’d just write. I’d say, ‘Well then, I’ll just be a songwriter.’ Because that’s how I express myself. That’s my time...
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Top songwriting tips from country music’s biggest songwriters
When Radio.com’s Annie Reuter asked some of country music’s most successful songwriters for their advice for new writers, her interviews produced these Top Tips from leading writers such as Steve...
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